New York Hotline: Special Ed #304, excerpt 1
Among New York City students with disability labels today, most are in the category of “learning disability.
newspapers and the media
New York Hotline: Special Ed #304, excerpt 2
Disabled students have always attended New York City schools, whether they were identified as disabled or not.
La Escuela Bilingüe Número 25 del Distrito Escolar 7
Please note: This is work in progress. Please keep that in mind as you read.
History of Double Dutch
Two Black Harlem police officers, Mike Walker and Ulysses Williams, founded the first Annual World International Double Dutch competition in 1974.
New York Kids Jump for Prizes in Double Dutch Tourney
The Eighth Annual World International Double Dutch competition took place at Lincoln Center in 1981.
Where is District 5?
Under decentralized school governance, each community school district had its own school board, and members of that board were elected by parents and voters who lived within the community school district’s boundaries.
Girls Jumping Double Dutch
According to New York’s Black newspaper the Amsterdam News, Double Dutch is “a skip-rope activity in which two ropes are turned in eggbeater fashion by two rope turners while a third person jumps within the moving ropes.
Bernard Carabello Interview
As institutions became more widespread, more parents sent their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities away, hoping they would be rehabilitated and come home.
90% Boycott Hits Problem School
In the fall of 1964, months after the massive February 1964 boycott, Reverend Milton Galamison and the Citywide Committee on Integration launched another boycott.
The School Boycott Concept
In this op-ed, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
J.H.S. 103, P.S. 194, and City Hall
During the February 3, 1964 boycott, there was a rally at City Hall.
What a “Fizzle!”
Here a black newspaper, the Amsterdam News, reflects on how others spoke about the February 3 boycott both before and after it happened.
Malcolm X Comments on the Boycotts
The second school boycott took place on March 16, 1964.
A Boycott Solves Nothing
The New York Times’ editorial board published this editorial a few days before the first 1964 school boycott.
Claim Teachers Used Pupils as Shoe Shine Boys: DA Calls Charges “Serious”
In late 1963, The Amsterdam News reported on allegations that teachers and administrators at P.
Jim Crow School Kids as Mentally Unfit
By the 1940s, New York City schools frequently used intelligence tests to decide which kind of schooling a child needed.
The Brownies’ Book, April 1920, letters from readers
The Brownies’ Book included different kinds of writing, visual art, and photography by adults.
The Brownies’ Book, February 1920, cover
The NAACP and W.E.B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to speak directly to Black children about the world and their lives.
The Brownies’ Book, January 1920, excerpts
Here are a few pages from the first issue of the magazine.
William Maxwell
Who should have made decisions about what happened to the hundreds of thousands of children in New York City’s schools?