New perspectives on the history of the twentieth-century American high school / / Kyle P. Steele

• Autore: Steele Kyle P.
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 pages)
• Disciplina: 373.73
• Soggetto topico: High schools - United States - History; High school students - United States; Escoles secundàries; Història de l'educació
• Soggetto geografico: Estats Units d'Amèrica
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 What Is the Twentieth-Century American High School? An Introduction -- 2 Politics and Markets: The Enduring Dynamics of the US System of Schooling -- Politics and Markets and the Founding of Central High -- Increased Access Leads to a Tracked and Socially Reproductive Central High -- The Lessons of Central High Applied to the American Educational System -- What's Next in the Struggle Between Politics and Markets? -- 3 Renovations in the Citadel -- Second Thoughts -- The Disappearance of Childhood? -- Mile-Wide, Inch-Deep -- Lessons from a Kentucky High School -- Different Sources -- Numbers: Course Enrollments -- Visuals: High School Architecture -- What's Next? -- 4 "Intellectual Power" for All: Theodore Sizer and the Origins of the Coalition of Essential Schools at Phillips Academy, Andover -- "A Private School?" -- The Power of Personalization -- From Subjects and Seat Time to "Intellectual Power" -- From Andover to the National Stage -- The Coalition of Essential Schools -- Deeper Learning for All -- 5 "A Living, Breathing, Curriculum": Harlem Prep and the Power of Cultural Relevance, 1967-1974 -- "Everything Spoke to the Times": Relevant Teaching in Class Spaces -- "A Curriculum that Holds Their Interests": Course Selection and Educational Program -- "It Was like an Open House": Programs, Initiatives, and the After-School Space -- In Perspective: Curriculum, the History of Education, and Social Justice Research -- 6 Gendered Anxieties Pave the Way for a Separate and Unequal Co-educational High School -- The Expansion of American High Schools Fuels Debates About Co-Education -- Leveraging Hall's Theories to Advance the Campaign to Build New High Schools -- Germantown Residents Receive Funds to Build a Permanent Public High School. ; Germantown High School: A Separate and Unequal Co-Educational High School -- 7 A Window into the World of Students: An Analysis of 1920s High School Student Newspapers -- The Progressive High School and Its Newspaper: A Natural Fit -- The Beginning of High School Newspapers, 1910-1923 -- The Professionalization and Standardization of the High School Press, 1924-1929 -- 8 Books, Basketball, and Order of the Fish: Youth Culture in Midwest Small-Town High Schools, 1900-1930 -- The Assembly: The Home of Youth Culture -- The Assembly: Student Behavior -- Semi-formal Organizations: From Literary Societies to Basketball -- Informal Organizations: Order of the Fish -- Conclusion -- 9 "Fight for Your Land": Southern High School Activism and the Struggle for Youth Autonomy During and After the Second World War -- Politicizing the Southern Black High School Through Protest and the Courts -- Feigned Militancy: SNYC and NAACP Youth Organization During the War -- "Behold the Land": Tilling the Soil of the Southern Youth Movement -- 10 The Hidden Politics of High School Violence -- High School Violence in the South -- High School Violence in the North -- High School Violence and the Carceral State -- Conclusion -- 11 Shifting Public Perceptions of Wichita's Southeast High School, 1957-2000 -- The "Golden Years," 1957-1979 -- The Road to a Final Desegregation Plan -- Implications of the Desegregation Plan -- Little Harvard Transitions, 1980-1999 -- District Policy Changes: Trading One Problem for Another -- District Seeks to Retain Students with Policy Initiatives -- Conclusion -- 12 Funding the "High School of Tomorrow": Inequity in Facility Construction and Renovation in Rural North Carolina, 1964-1997 -- "The Road to Disrepair"22: School Districts Funding New Construction for (De)Segregation -- "No Help"77: County and State Accountability for Resource Disparities. ; Conclusion -- 13 Epilogue -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: New Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth-Century American High School
• ISBN: 3-030-79922-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910508457103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Historical Studies in Education