The once and future school : three hundred and fifty years of American secondary education /
Jurgen Herbst.
- New York : Routledge, 1996.
- xvi, 263 p. ; 24 cm.
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.