The Urban Demos and the School

Notes

• Daniel P. Moynihan , “To Solve a Problem, First Define It,” New York Times , January 12, 1970 , p. 62 .
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• F. Cordasco , “Poor Children and Schools,” Choice 7 ( April-May 1970 ): 202 – 12 , 355–56; republished, with some expansion, F. Cordasco and M. Hillson, “The School and the Children of the Poor: A Bibliography of Selected References,” in Education and the Many Faces of the Disadvantaged, ed. W. W. Brickman and S. Lehrer (New York: John Wiley, 1972), pp. 389–410.
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• Texts (among many) include A. Kerber and B. Bommarito , eds., The Schools and the Urban Crisis ( New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston , 1965 ); J. L. Frost and G. R. Hawkes, eds., The Disadvantaged Child: Issues and Innovations, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966, 1970); A. H. Passow, ed., Education of the Disadvantaged (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967); this is one of a half-dozen texts which he has edited; M. Hillson, F. Cordasco, and F. P. Purcell, eds., Education and the Urban Community (New York: American Book Company, 1969); James C. Stone and Donald P. DeNevi, eds., Teaching Multi-Cultural Populations (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1971); W. W. Brick-man and S. Lehrer, eds., Education and the Many Faces of the Disadvantaged (New York: John Wiley, 1972). For an apercu of the genre, see F. Cordasco, “A Quartet of Volumes Preoccupied with Poverty,” Phi Delta Kappan 54 (January 1973): 354–55.
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• For a guide to literature, see F. Cordasco , The Equality of Educational Opportunity: A Bibliography of Selected References ( New York : Rowman and Littlefield , 1973 ).
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• Doxey A. Wilkerson , in The Disadvantaged Child: Compensatory Education, A National Debate , ed. Jerome Hellmuth ( New York : Brunner/Mazel , 1970 ), p. 34 .
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• Raymond C. Hummel and John M. Nagle , Urban Education in America: Problems and Prospects ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1974 ).
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• Ibid. , p. ix.
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• Ibid. , p. 115 .
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• Ibid. , p. 262 .
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• Morris Janowitz , Institution Building in Urban Education ( New York : Russell Sage Foundation , 1969 ). Janowitz observes: “The basic problem is no longer that the public school resists change. The issues are that inner school systems do not have the capacity to plan or launch comprehensive change to deal with any particular problem or school population. Partial and segmental change has been the order of the day, with unanticipated con sequences that have worked to the disadvantage of the inner city school” (p. 116). See also, Neal Gross, Implementing Organizational Innovations (New York: Basic Books, 1971), one of the most important documents yet produced on the seeming paradox of protean effort and failure in the schools in the 1960s.
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• Hummel and Nagle , Urban Education , p. 30 .
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• The complete text of the report is available in The Urban Education Task Force Report , final report of the Task Force on Urban Education to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Wilson C. Riles , chairman ( New York : Praeger , 1970 ). The Task Force was one of a number convened in March 1969 by Robert H. Finch, then secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The Urban Education Task Force was headed by Dr. Wilson C. Riles and was assigned by the late Dr. James E. Allen (then assistant secretary/ commissioner of education—designate) a high priority in seeking solutions for the deepening urban educational crisis. The Task Force completed its report in November/ December 1969 and submitted it to Dr. Allen in January 1970. For whatever reason, the report was not made public, and only its publication by Rep. Jeffrey Cohelan (D., Calif.) in the Congressional Record (January 19–20, 1970) brought it to attention.
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• No mention is made of Colen Greer 's The Great School Legend ( New York : Basic Books , 1972 ), with only passing reference to his earlier pamphlet. Cobweb Attitudes (New York: Teachers College Press, 1969). A vast literature on the immigant child exists; see F. Cordasco, “The Children of Immigrants in Schools: Historical Analogues of Educational Deprivation,” Journal of Negro Education 42 (Winter 1973): 44–53. See also, David Tyack, The One Best System: A History of Urban Education (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974).
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• Riles , Urban Education , p. 10 .
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