Eileen Lebow

The Bright Boys (eBook, PDF)

A History of Townsend Harris High School

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Named for the man who brought free higher education to city youths unable to afford the two local private colleges, Townsend Harris High School reminded generations of New Yorkers of the city's debt to him. Its mission was to prepare young men for success at City College, where education was free to graduates of the city's public high schools. The school's three year course was tough and rigorous. Students learned to survive and perform, or they left. By the 1930s, Townsend Harris was synonymous for bright boys, students who scored high on the yearly Regents examinations, but whose athletic ability, hard as they tried, was something of a joke. The author traces the development of the preparatory school from the first years of its beginning in 1849 to its 1942 closing by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia amid much controversy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313002113
• Artikelnr.: 68528235

Autorenporträt

EILEEN F. LEBOW was born and grew up in the Panama Canal Zone. After earning a Masters Degree from U.C.L.A., she taught for 30 years in the Maryland Public Schools. She is the author of Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight. She lives and writes in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

A Look Back Sub-Freshman Moves Up Students and Theories Change of Identity
Harris Observed Perpendicular Learning Educators' Dilemma Ferment and
Agitation Clouds Over 23rd and Lexington Troubles Abound Sam's Boys State
of "Chasis" Beginning of the End To Plan or Not to Plan Waiting It Out
Fatal Spring Ave Atque Vale Reference Sources Bibliography Index