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Jurgen Herbst (Author)

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November 14, 1996 041591194X 978-0415911948 1
Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school.

The Once and Future School argues that to make sense of the current trials of secondary educational system and to maintain any sense of direction and vision for its future, we need a clear understanding of its path in the past and of its setting in a multi-national world. From their beginnings in colonial America to the present day, Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to hammer out and clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school.

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...The Once and Future School is a valuable and important book. Herbst has produced the single best volume on the history of the American high school that we have to date, and, in the process, he raises some provocative questions about what secondary education in this country should look like in the twenty-first century .
Far more than a history of secondary education, this volume is a thoughtful perspective on how and what schooling can become in a restructured education system that provides lifelong careers in education..
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Jurgen Herbst is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and of History at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has served as president of the American History of Education Society and of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. His most recent book is And Sadly Teach, a history of teacher education in the United States.

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Our traditions of secondary education have their origin in the artes liberales of the Middle Ages. Read the first page
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public schoolmen, college domination, manual education, comprehensive high school, life adjustment education, collegiate way, senior high school age, vocational educators, democratic imperative, public secondary education, continuation schools, high school departments, free high schools, classical course, vocational instruction, union school districts, preparatory department, reviewing committee, township high school
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New York, Cardinal Principles, Committee of Ten, United States, Yale Report, New England, National Education Association, American Youth Commission, Philadelphia Central, Progressive Education Association, Columbia University, Educational Policies Commission, Harvard College, Literature Fund, Office of Education, Yale College, Franklin College, Free Academy, National Association of Manufacturers, Teachers College, Boston Latin School, David Labaree, General Court, George Counts, Senatus Academicus
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