This fifteen-page history of Berkeley’s Casa de la Raza—from its creation in 1971 to its disbanding (like Black House) under the pressure of the federal Office of Civil Rights in 1973—is an excerpt from the more comprehensive report on all the schools that fell under the umbrella of the Berkeley Experimental Schools Project (BESP).
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History of Casa de la Raza
Date: 11/1976
Citation:
Institute for Scientific Analysis,”The Life and Fate of Individual Alternative Schools in the Berkeley Experimental Schools Project,” volume II of Educational R&D and the Case of Berkeley’s Experimental Schools, report prepared for US Department of Health Education and Welfare National Institute of Education, November 1976, 17-31.
Additional Notes:
For the full fifteen-page excerpt on Casa de la Raza, please click the link below.