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But Rather As a Basis for Study DO4111,41tP4T PPRIIMPI EF 003 286 ED 030 276 City. Concept forDiscussion. The EducationalPark in New York New York CityBoard of Education.Brooklyn. N.Y. Pub Date Apr 65 Note -23p. -$0.25 He -$1.25 *Educational Parks. EDRS Price MF Schemes. *Criteria.Distance. Economics. Descriptors -CommunityRelations. *Conceptual School Location.*Site Selection.Transportation parks--(1) the plan for threedifferent kindsof educational A study outline (3) the pyramidtype ispresented. Each is horizontal type.(2) the verticaltype. and basis forstudy and discussed, not asdefinitive proposals.but rather as a thet. hope thatitwill stimulatepublic and discussion. 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Donovan, Acting Superintendent of Fchools INTRODUCTION One of the important sections ofthe "Blueprint for Further ActionToward Quality Integrated Education" was astudy outline of a plan for aneducational park drawn up by Assistant SuperintendentJacob Landers and Planning Director, Adrian Blumenfeld.It was clearly indicatedthat: - -thematerial was presented not as aproposal for implementation but as anoutline for study and discussion. --A public hearing would be held toreceive the reactions of interestedcitizens and groups. --A decision would be reached withregard to the educational park conceptby the end of June 1965. Decisions with regard to other sectionsof the "Blueprint" will be reached on April 2 8.Therefore, in the interests of moreeffective organization of time, discussion of the educational park concept wasnot heard at the open meetingof the Board of Education on April 14.This permitted fuller discussion of the otherim- portant sections. On some date inMay or early June, an open meetingof the Board of Education will be held to dealsolely with the question of the educational park. This outline has caused so muchinterest that it has been reprinted in its entirety so as to permit the widestpossible distribution.The original outlimi in- cluded only one type of educationalpark, the horizontal organization.In order to direct public attention to the manypossibilities of the new concepts,illustrations of two other types - the verticaland the pyramid - have beenincluded. Additional copies may be secured from EducationInformation Services and Public Relations, Board of Education, 110 Livingston Street,BrooklYn, New York, 11201. It must be clearly understood thatthe specific sites mentioned in theoutline have been selected for use as examples ormodels. They are not necessarilythe best nor the most available sites, nor arethey the only ones which are possible. ,,ther sites which may be feasible arethe World's Fair area or theQueens College area in Queens, theNavy Yard area in Brooklyn,and anumber of others. It is desired therefore thatthe discussion should direct itself tothe educa- tional park as an idea or a generalizedpossibility, rather than to the strengths or weaknesses of the particular site used as amodel.If the concept of the educa- tional park has merit, then it shouldbe developed regardless of theinadequacies of the specific site.If it is without merit, then theavailability of land is of little importance. The purpose of this public andprofessional discussion is to inform the public as fully as possible, and toshed light upon a new and far reaching concept. It is hoped that the discussionwill proceed with this goal in mind. Bernard E. Donovan Acting Superintendent of Schools STUDY OUTLINE OF A PLAN FOR AN EDUCATIONAL PARK I.HISTORY In the Interim Report of December 3, 1963, "Progress Toward Integra- tion, " the Superintendent of Schools stated: "A study is also being made of the possibilities of an educational park on a single large site." This study was conducted by a committee of Associate and Assistant Superintendents, together with the head of the Division of School Planning and Research under the chairmanship of Fred Schoenberg, Associate Superintendent of Schools (retired).The committee report, which was presented to the Superintendent of Schools on February 3, 1964, gave both the advantages and disadvantages of an educational park.It concluded, "while the 'educational park' concept has certain possibilities for improving integration, the plan must be assessed as it would work out in practice.It does not appear that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages." Discussions continued with reference to the merits of the educational park concept. Assistant Superintendent in charge of integration activities, Mr. Jacob Landers, met with many communitygroups in order to explore the dimensions of the concept, while Mr. Adrian Blumenfeld, head of the School Planning and Research Unit, continued his research with reference to site selection criteria for an educational park and specific possible sites within the city which might best fit these criteria.In April, plans were formulated for a two-day conference to be sponsored by the Board of Education and sup- ported by a grant from the Field Foundation. These efforts were given fresh impetus by the report of State Commissioner Allen's Advisory Committeeon Human Relations and Community Tensions on May 12, 1964 entitled "Desegregating the Public Schools of New York City." This report, whichsoon became known as the Allen Report, made the following suggestion: "We recommend further that,as soon as possible, the middle schools should be located in educational parks so situated as to provide children in as many parts of the city as is feasible, the experience of attending a genuinely integrated school during their middle school years. We recognize that for reasons previously pointed out, it may not be possible for some time to assure every child such an experience, but our objective is to bring it about for the greatest possible number. This we think can be accomplished by locating groups of middle schools on large sites designed to accommodate perhaps 15, 000 children with administrative units organized so that each child will be a member of a school enrolling 500 to 1,000 pupils.The most practical location for such schools would be in areas where a suitable number of minority group children can be drawn from existing ghetto neighborhoods into parks which will also enroll children from white neighborhoods." -2- "Eventually, educational parks housed in newly developed structures on cleared sites shouldreplace single middle schools with their educational complexes." On June 23rd and 24th, 1964, probably thefirst full-dress discussion of the educational park concept by a largeprofessional and lay group was held at Arden House, Harriman,New York. The participants included members and staff of the Board of Education, representativesof civil rights and other community organizations and interestedpublic agencies. Indeed, it seems fair to say that they represented thebroadest possible base of informal pro- fessional and lay thinking. Speakersincluded Dr. Harold Gores, President, and Dr. Cyril Sargent, ProgramSpecialist, of Educational Facilities Labora- tories, Inc.; Dr. George B. Brain,Superintendent of Schools, Baltimore, Maryland; and Dr. Robert A. Dent ler, ExecutiveOfficer, Institute of Urban Studies.The proceedings of the conference weresummarized by Dr. Nathan Jacobson under the title "An Exploration of theEducational Park Concept." The integration plans for 1964-1965, summarizedunder the title "Action Toward Quality Integrated Education, " stated that"this conference will it is hoped lead to the formulation of appropriateproposals and staff implementa- tion." The conference did indeed result in moreintensive exploration and more precise definitionof the whole idea, so that the staff was able to con- tinue its practical research.In this process, more than a dozendifferent sites have been co:nsidered, and at least ahalf-dozen different organizational patterns have been developed inorder to explore the educational parameters of the park concept. Study is now at thepoint where there is staff agreement with reference to the sites and theschool organizations which seem tooffer the greatest possibilities for success. II.CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF A SITE FORAN EDUCATIONAL PARK A.Integration. It should be so located as to servestudents of diverse ethnicity, roughly representive of the ethnic compositionof the local cornmu- nities from which these students aredrawn.In the short run,
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