Chronology: Date 1967-08-00

From 1967 until 1976 the Harlem Preparatory School was the only high school in central Harlem. The community school, which was set up by a group of black ministers, Catholic nuns, and Bahá'ís, provided a means of education to a primarily African American clientele who were not well-accommodated in the regular system. Under the direction of Headmaster Howard Carpenter, himself an African American New Yorker, the school operated on funding from foundations, businesses and individuals. Those that contributed make a long list that cut across habitual racial and ideological lines. The school employed non-credentialed teachers and the only requirement for graduation was acceptance into a college or university. [From Nayriz to New York: Hussein Ahdieh and the Story of Harlem Prep by Sean Nevins]

Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman, two who served at the school in both a teaching and administrative capacity, have documented the decade of operation of the school with a website as well as a youtube video Harlem Prep Step by Step and a book A Way Out of No Way: Transforming Dropouts Into Scholars, 1967-1977.

See Mr. Ahdieh's dissertation Harlem Preparatory School: An Alternative, written some three years before the schools closing.

See as well The Story Of Harlem Prep: Cultivating A Community School In New York City by Barry M. Goldenberg.

Harlem Preparatory school (Harlem Prep); Alternative schools; Education; Hussein Ahdieh; Hillary Chapman; New York, USA; USA

Try also a shorter date like 1967-08-0 or 1967-08

try also the Chronology Canada — 1967-08-00 or 1967-08-0 or 1967-08

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