This sixteen-page history of Berkeley’s Black House—from its creation in 1970 to its “liquidation” in 1973 under the pressure of the federal Office of Civil Rights—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 Black House
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, 1-16.
Additional Notes:
For the full sixteen-page excerpt on Black House, please click the link below.