The once and future school : three hundred and fifty years of American secondary education / Jurgen Herbst.

By: Herbst, JurgenMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1996Description: xvi, 263 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0415911931 (cl : alk. paper); 9780415911931 (cl : alk. paper); 041591194X (pb : alk. paper); 9780415911948 (pb : alk. paper)Subject(s): Education, Secondary -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 373.73 LOC classification: LA222 | .H386 1996Online resources: Publisher description
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-248) and index.

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.

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