The Chasm: The Life and Death of a Great Experiment in Ghetto Education
Robert Jean Campbell, M.D.
The Chasm: The Life and Death of a Great Experiment in Ghetto Education
Robert Jean Campbell, M.D.
#2420 of 3,809 books · #797 in History
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1975).
This book discusses the fate of experimental schools in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Publisher
- Greenwood
- ISBN-13
- 9780313251191
- Genre
- Topics
- Ghetto educationExperimental schoolsNew York City history
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1975)
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