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The Bright Boys A History of Townsend Harris High School
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Eileen F. Lebow
Book Code: GM1479
ISBN: 0-313-31479-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31479-7
248 pages, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2000
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Education
Series Number: 80
Reviews:
  • The Bright Boys utilizes an array of rich materials to tell a story of a distinctive high school from the perspective of students, teachers, administrators, and politicians. And although it leaves us with a number of important questions unanswered, it can serve as a catalyst for future case histories-to help us better understand the solidification of the model of secondary schooling in the twentieth century.
    —History of Education Quarterly     Fall 2002
Description: Named for the man who brought free higher education to city youths unable to afford the two local private colleges, Townsend Harris High School reminded generations of New Yorkers of the city's debt to him. Its mission was to prepare young men for success at City College, where education was free to graduates of the city's public high schools. The school's three year course was tough and rigorous. Students learned to survive and perform, or they left. By the 1930s, Townsend Harris was synonymous for bright boys, students who scored high on the yearly Regents examinations, but whose athletic ability, hard as they tried, was something of a joke. The author traces the development of the preparatory school from the first years of its beginning in 1849 to its 1942 closing by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia amid much controversy.
Table of Contents:
  • A Look Back
  • Sub-Freshman Moves Up
  • Students and Theories
  • Change of Identity
  • Harris Observed
  • Perpendicular Learning
  • Educators' Dilemma
  • Ferment and Agitation
  • Clouds Over 23rd and Lexington
  • Troubles Abound
  • Sam's Boys
  • State of "Chasis"
  • Beginning of the End
  • To Plan or Not to Plan
  • Waiting It Out
  • Fatal Spring
  • Ave Atque Vale
  • Reference Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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