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Growing Up Black: Perspectives on the History of Education in Northern Ghettos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

David B. Tyack
David B. Tyack*
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Two facts, I am sure, are evident to all of us. We desperately need an appraisal of the history of education in northern black ghettos, but because of the incredible lack of research on this subject in the past we can only dimly perceive the outlines such a study might take. Consequently, I should like to suggest a few leading questions which might guide this investigation and to indicate some of the sources to which historians might turn for evidence and insights. Let me stress the speculative and tentative character of this essay.

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Urban Education II
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Fall 1969 , pp. 287 - 297
Copyright
Copyright © 1969 by New York University 

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1. Some perspectives of schoolmen on urban schools and the educational needs and characteristics of black pupils:

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