The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
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A Place for Every Body
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Pacific Center
Threads of Rebellion
Citizens vs. Developers
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Documents Tagged ‘Berkeley Experimental Schools Project (BESP)’
Educational R&D and Berkeley’s Experimental Schools (Vol. 2)
Archive Entry Date: 11/30/1976
Part two of an in-depth history of the 23 new schools created during Berkeley's experimental period
Educational R&D and Berkeley’s Experimental Schools (Vol. 1)
Archive Entry Date: 11/30/1976
What happened with Berkeley's 23 alternative schools? A 580-page study gives a fine-grained answer
History of Casa de la Raza
Archive Entry Date: 11/1976
The short life of an experiment in Chicano-centered education
History of Black House
Archive Entry Date: 11/1976
The vision of Black House, and how it collapsed under pressure
Berkeley and Busing—Still Short of Aims
Archive Entry Date: 5/20/1976
Eight years after the buses rolled, a LA Times reporter suggested the project of school desegregation had become ever more complicated
Berkeley College Prep A Success
Archive Entry Date: 06/18/1975
A different narrative about minority achievement and experimental schools.
Genesis
Archive Entry Date: 5/31/74
The experimental Genesis High School sought to temper hierarchies between students and teachers in a multiracial setting
Agora
Archive Entry Date: 5/31/74
An experimental school that sought to ground Berkeley high schoolers in democratic practice and activism
Performing Arts Group Creates Model School
Archive Entry Date: 12/31/68
Berkeley's first experimental public school: a new "Community High" that would build relationships between students and locals