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

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

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 growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the tw