the History of Schools in NYC

This week’s readings “NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM BROWNSVILLE TO BLOOMBERG COMMUNITY CONTROL AND ITS LEGACY” by Heather Lewis seems like the perfect work for the last response because it covers a lot of ground we have looked into in the past few weeks/months and covers it all over a long span of time.  the reading brings up many specific examples of oppressed minorities discriminated against in places such as East Harlem and how the situation came to be and was fought by the parents and the communities. this article is also the first reading in a while that goes into details of the political nature of the changes make and how political pressure influenced these policy changes. one interesting aspect the article brings up is the idea of non-english speakers and bilingual teaching, which is something one would think would have come up a while ago, as New York is nothing is not a multilingual city;  advertisements on the subway always translate into like three other languages minimum and sometimes aren’t even primarily in english.  this lingual aspect of schools is another interesting aspect that seems to tie in heavily to a lot of what has been discussed in this class so more on this topic might prove helpful to the research we are doing and the questions we are trying to answer. the overall tone of the reading seems to be emphasizing how hard making significant changes for the better are and how much it was always a long battle. even when communities assemble behind and idea, it is still a long process the decentralize schools and then later to recentralize them. overall, this reading provides a lot of info on the types of issues we have been discussing a lot in this course as well as introducing a new one in the form of bilingual schools and teachers, and thus gives a lot of useful info towards the learning goals of this course.