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