This work examines debates about curriculum policy in the American high school and also looks at changes in the institution itself. The authors argue that beginning in the 1930s, American high schools shifted from an emphasis on academic education to a focus on custodial care of adolescents.
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This review is from: The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995 (Reflective History Series) (Paperback)
I am amazed that this book is so low on the bestselling list (300,000). This was such a brief (200 pages) and informative book on the main trends of American secondary education in this past centure. The best thing is, the book did not just discuss the major national events, and the ever-varying goals of education, but also used actual data from reasearches done in different times on different cities to evaluate the what really happened in students course taking patterns and course offering after and amid the chaos of all the national debates. I bought the book because I was working on a Education Reform plan, and needed to know more about secondary schools' historic developments. Reading this book has achieved this goal for me, and I would suggest you to read the book if you want to know history told inpartially. It has the real national and regional Data! The book's conclusion about this past century is that differentiation in curriculum is undemocratic, and has been the source of American Secondary education's problem. That's why the title is "the failed promise". Bad Side: It was written in 1995, kind of out-of-date. I think it did not recognize the benifits of differentiated curriculum. The system was indeed unequal, but was not completely. It was better than the total focus on College-prep before the 10s, and at least did not force everybody to study useless knowledges when most people didn't have to go to colleges.
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This review is from: The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995 (Reflective History Series) (Paperback)
I teach the history of education at Boston University and wrote The Myth of the Common School (1988, 2002) and a number of other books; I am just now completing a two-volume history of educational policy in the West. All this by way of saying that I've read a lot of ed history! This book by Angus and Mirel truly stands out, and made a lot of things fall into place for me. I will urge all of my graduate students to read it.
Charles Glenn
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grand Rapids, Committee of Ten, African American, Black Power, World War, Great Depression, New Deal, Office of Education, United States, Progressive Era, Detroit Free Press, University of Michigan, Educational Policies Commission, National Commission, American Youth Commission, Arthur Bestor, Central High School, Civic Club, Detroit Commission, New York, North Central Association, Teachers College, Bureau of Education, National Education Association, Commissioner of Education New!
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Grand Rapids, Committee of Ten, African American, Black Power, World War, Great Depression, New Deal, Office of Education, United States, Progressive Era, Detroit Free Press, University of Michigan, Educational Policies Commission, National Commission, American Youth Commission, Arthur Bestor, Central High School, Civic Club, Detroit Commission, New York, North Central Association, Teachers College, Bureau of Education, National Education Association, Commissioner of Education New!
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- American High School by James B. Conant in Front Matter, page 112, and Back Matter
- Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America by Stokely Carmichael on page 126, and Back Matter
- The African Americans by Charles M. Collins on page 126
- Paideia Proposal by Mortimer J. Adler on page 166
- Education in the United States by Robert L. Church in Back Matter
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- Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform by Diane Ravitch on 7 pages
- The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective by Kim Tolley in Back Matter
- Standing at the Portals: The Science Education of American Girls by Kim Tolley in Back Matter
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