The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995 (Reflective History Series)
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780807738436
Subjects: Curriculum planning & development; Secondary schools; Social history; High schools; Secondary Education; Education / Teaching; United States; Education; USA; History; Secondary; Curricula; Education, Secondary; Educational change
First sentence: DURING THE LATTER HALF of the nineteenth century, the public high school gradually replaced the private academy as the dominant form of secondary education in America.