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The New American High School
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Ted Sizer
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-22 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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The late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school system Our current high schools are ill-designed and inefficient. We have inherited a
The New American High School
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: David D. Marsh
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Corwin Press

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Contains nine essays in which the authors argue in favor of eliminating the tracking system in American high schools and returning to a curriculum focused on co
The Origins of the American High School
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: William J. Reese
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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An analysis of the social changes and political debates that shaped 19th-century American high schools. It reveals what students studied and how they behaved, w
Horace's School
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Theodore R. Sizer
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Since the late 1970s, Theodore Sizer has studied and worked among hundreds of American high schools. His research was first published in 1984 in Horace's Compro
The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: David L. Angus
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Teachers College Press

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This provocative new study of the American high school examines the historical debates about curriculum policy and also traces changes in the institution itself