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The Origins of the American High School (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Origins of the American High School (Paperback, New Ed)
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This engrossing book tells the story of American high schools in
the nineteenth century. William Reese analyzes the social changes
and political debates that shaped these institutions across the
nation-from the first public high school, established in
Massachusetts in 1821, to the 1880s, by which time a majority of
secondary students in the North were enrolled in high schools.
Reese also explores in generous detail the experience of going to
school. Drawing on the writings of local educators and school
administrators as well as on student newspapers, diaries, and
memoirs, he brings to life the high schools of a century ago,
revealing what students studied and how they behaved, what teachers
expected of them and how they taught, and how boys and girls,
whites and blacks, and children in different parts of the nation
perceived their schools. America's earliest public high schools
were built in major cities along the eastern seaboard, and they
became an important factor in the building of free public school
systems, bringing a broad range of middle-class citizens into their
orbit. Reese shows that although high schools were condemned by
critics as elite institutions of classical learning, they were in
fact largely dedicated to offering talented, mostly middle-class
youth a quality education in modern, practical subjects.
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