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

In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped America�

There has been considerable debate about the process of and the underlying motivation for the expansion of public education in nineteenth-century America. Inter

The Schenley Experiment is the story of Pittsburgh’s first public high school, a social incubator in a largely segregated city that was highly—even improbab

This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school. New educational markets emphasized school diversity and parental choice rather than social