| Description |
1 online resource (286 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; 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 |
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14 The High School in Search of Itself15 End of an Era; 16 From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
This book speaks to anyone interested in, and concerned for, the future of American education, most particularly legislators and school board members, parents, educatots and students |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Secondary -- United States -- History
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Education -- United States -- History
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Education
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Education, Secondary
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203344699 |
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0203344693 |
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