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In reply to the discussion: Former NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein Is Not Telling the Whole Truth About His Personal History [View all]elleng
(136,111 posts)10. And, as Klein grew up in New York City,
and attended NY city schools in early 50s (as I did,) he benefitted from excellent public education. EDUCATION was different at the time.
'Klein grew up in New York City and attended public schools, graduating from William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens in 1963. He attended Columbia University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, again graduating magna cum laude, in 1971. He then clerked for Chief Judge David Bazelon on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1973 until 1974, before then clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Klein
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xchrom
Oct 2012
OP
Public housing 60 years ago was built for returning war veterans and their family..
no_hypocrisy
Oct 2012
#1
"Public housing projects" were created in 1933 during the Roosevelt Administration....
George II
Oct 2012
#6
The point of the post is clearly that not all public housing was "the projects"
starroute
Oct 2012
#7
Public housing in NYC (I grew up in Brooklyn too - was born only 2 years after he was)....
George II
Oct 2012
#8
not only does he lie by implying woodside houses = 'the projects,' he impugns his parents' memory
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#41
People don't "lie" by "implying" - it's in the hands and minds of the listener or reader.......
George II
Oct 2012
#42
Why? Because what is being said about him in the sweeping proclamations about him is.......
George II
Oct 2012
#46
weren't you going away? wasn't that your last post? take it up with the writer, who grew up
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#47
All you say about those disqualifying factors and and "filters" had been abandoned by 1955......
George II
Oct 2012
#48
take it up with the writer. you're the one with no material facts. you've posted nothing but
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#49
I read the words the way they were written, not how I want them to be written, as you've done.
George II
Oct 2012
#50
the fact is that the public housing project klein lived in was neither a low-income 'project' nor
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#19
And what is the most important component of those excellent schools? GOOD teachers.
George II
Oct 2012
#14
impossible to keep politics out of *any* kind of education -- private, public, religious, etc. all
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#29
i'm not clear on what you mean by politics, as in 'how to,' testing, etc. could you give an
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#25
if you could give me an example of what you mean. there's always been an intersection of
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#28