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9780807744550

The Comprehensive High School Today

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807744550

  • ISBN10:

    0807744557

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-01
  • Publisher: Teachers College Pr

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Summary

Hammack has gathered a distinguished group to assess current reform efforts in their sociological and historical context, taking into account the vision of James B. Conanat, the major proponent of the comprehensive high schools. Contributors are: Mary Erina Driscoll, Joseph P. McDonald, Jeannie Oakes, John L. Rury, Roger Shouse, Amy Suart Wells.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(5)
Floyd M. Hammack
What Should Be Common and What Should Not? James B. Conant and U.S. High School Reform
6(20)
Floyd M. Hammack
High School in the 21st Century: Managing the Core Dilemma
26(19)
Joseph P. McDonald
The Problems of Educating Urban Youth: James B. Conant and the Changing Context of Metropolitan America, 1945--1995
45(24)
John L. Rury
Democratic Spirit and Moral Learning in Comprehensive High Schools
69(18)
Roger Shouse
The Comprehensive High School, Detracking and the Persistence of Social Stratification
87(27)
Jeannie Oakes
Amy Stuart Wells
The Sense of Place and Conant's Legacy: Connecting Schools and Their Communities
114(15)
Mary Erina Driscoll
Does the Comprehensive High School Have a Future?
129(14)
Floyd M. Hammack
About the Editor and Contributors 143(4)
Index 147

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