| My aim in writing this book has been to discover andexplain how American public education works whatfunctions it performs and by what processes. ! have alsowanted to tell some stories about events and people whosedrama, or fates, or significance touched me. As a matter of fact. when I first thought about writingthe book, I mainly wanted to tell the stories. Like severalot~er teacher-writers of the last few years, my relationshipswith the students I taught as it happened, in New YorkCity-had stirred such deep feelings in me that when 1began to write, it was about them that I wanted to tell theworld. Then when I came to It. in 1967. it was apparentthat a great and exciting challenge to the New York publicschool system was in the process of fermenting, to which Ishould have to attend if I wanted to write about the NewYork schools and the people in them. So events pushed mefrom the grateful task of telling about the personalsituations and struggles of people 1 very much cared for tothe equally grateful task of telling about a movement and aconflict that might be productive of social change. Themovement was the community-control movement, and the |
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