The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995 (Reflective History Series)
Publisher: Teachers College Press; Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780807738429
Subjects: Curriculum planning & development; Secondary schools; Social history; High schools; Education / Teaching; Education; USA; History; Secondary; Curricula; Education, Secondary; Educational change; United States
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.