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The death of the comprehensive high school? :

(Number (ISBN

0230338461

(Number (ISBN

1403977690

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9780230338463

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9781403977694

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b756854

Title Proper

The death of the comprehensive high school? :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

historical, contemporary, and comprarative perspectives /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Barry M. Franklin and Gary McCulloch.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vi, 218 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Series Title

Secondary education in a changing world

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction-The death of the comprehensive high school? historical, contemporary, and comparative perspectives / Barry M. Franklin, Gary McCulloch -- Custodialism and career preparation in a comprehensive high school, 1929-1942 / Sevan G. Terzian -- Education for All American Youth (1944): a failed attempt to extend the comprehensive high school / Wayne J. Urban -- The comprehensive high school, enrollment expansion, and inequality: the United States in the Postwar Era / John L. Rury -- Breathing into small school reform: advocating for critical care in small schools of color / Rene Antrop Gonzalez, Anthony De Jesus -- Soul making in the comprehensive high school: the legacies of Frederick Wiseman's High School and High School II / Jose R. Rosario -- The end of the comprehensive high school? African American support for private school vouchers / Thomas C. Pedroni -- The formation of comprehensive education: Scandinavian Variations / Susanne Wiborg -- Missing, Presumed dead? what happened to the comprehensive school in England and Wales? / David Cook -- The comprehensive ideal in New Zealand: challenges and prospects / Gregory Lee, Howard Lee, Roger Openshaw -- "My parents came here with nothing and they wanted us to achieve": Italian Australians and school success / Pavla Miller -- Epilogue-The future of comprehensive high school / Gary McCulloch, Barry M. Franklin.

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"This groundbreaking volume brings together essays by an international group of scholars to reflect on the challenges and ultimate fate of the comprehensive high school at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The contributors consider whether the comprehensive high school is in decline and the nature of the problems and challenges that confront it. Highlighting the relationship between historical and contemporary developments, the contributors discuss the potential transformations of secondary schools. Essays focus on the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand."--BOOK JACKET.

Comprehensive high schools, Cross-cultural studies.

Education, Secondary, Cross-cultural studies.

Comprehensive high schools.

Education, Secondary.

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Franklin, Barry M.

McCulloch, Gary.

Date of Transaction

20201204170717.0

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[Book]

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