| Description |
xvi, 263 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Origins of Secondary Education -- 2. Grammar Schools, Colleges, and Academies in Early America -- 3. The Nineteenth-Century Liberal Arts College -- 4. The People's College -- 5. State Systems of Secondary Education -- 6. Midwestern Democracy -- 7. Between Town and Gown: The High School in Wisconsin -- 8. Growing Pains -- 9. The Committee of Ten -- 10. From Manual to Vocational Education -- 11. The Legacy of Vocational Education -- 12. Toward the Comprehensive High School -- 13. The High School Under Siege -- 14. The High School in Search of Itself -- 15. End of an Era -- 16. From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-248) and index. |
| Subject |
Education, Secondary -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0415911931 cloth alkaline paper |
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041591194X pb alkaline paper |
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