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The Once and Future School: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of American Secondary Education
By Jurgen Herbst
280 pages
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- Routledge
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- New York
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- 1996
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Synopsis
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 ...
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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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- List of Tables ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Preface xiii
- 1 - The Origins of Secondary Education 1
- 2 - Grammar Schools, Colleges, and Academies in Early America 11
- 3 - The Nineteenth-Century Liberal Arts College 27
- 4 - The People's College 41
- 5 - State Systems of Secondary Education 53
- 6 - Midwestern Democracy 65
- 7 - Between Town and Gown: the High School in Wisconsin 79
- 8 - Growing Pains 93
- 9 - The Committee of Ten 107
- 10 - From Manual to Vocational Education 117
- 11 - The Legacy of Vocational Education 131
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- List of Tables ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Preface xiii
- 1 - The Origins of Secondary Education 1
- 2 - Grammar Schools, Colleges, and Academies in Early America 11
- 3 - The Nineteenth-Century Liberal Arts College 27
- 4 - The People's College 41
- 5 - State Systems of Secondary Education 53
- 6 - Midwestern Democracy 65
- 7 - Between Town and Gown: the High School in Wisconsin 79
- 8 - Growing Pains 93
- 9 - The Committee of Ten 107
- 10 - From Manual to Vocational Education 117
- 11 - The Legacy of Vocational Education 131
- 12 - Toward the Comprehensive High School 141
- 13 - The High School Under Siege 157
- 14 - The High School in Search of Itself 171
- 15 - End of an Era 187
- 16 - From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century 201
- Notes 215
- Index 249