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New Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth-Century American High School

Part of the Historical Studies in Education Book Series

Editors: Steele, Kyle P.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79922-9

ISBN: 978-3-030-79921-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 8, 2021

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Chapter 1What Is the Twentieth-Century American High School? An Introduction

Steele, Kyle P.

Pages: 1 –12

[This chapter discusses the historiography of the twentieth-century American high school, culminating with why this edited volume is essential in moving the field in new, valuable directions. The introduction, as is customary, will also discuss the chapters that follow and what they might stand...
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Chapter 2Politics and Markets: The Enduring Dynamics of the US System of Schooling

Labaree, David F.

Pages: 13 –27

[This essay explores the tension between politics and markets that shapes the central dynamics of the American system of schooling. The primary insight is that the system is at odds with itself. It’s a system without a plan. The system evolved through the dynamic interplay of competing actors...
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Chapter 3Renovations in the Citadel

Hampel, Robert L.

Pages: 29 –52

[In 1986, Bob Hampel wrote The Last Little Citadel, the first overview of the history of American high schools since 1940. Hampel was originally a mid-nineteenth-century political historian, and the story of how he redefined himself is instructive for young historians tempted to shift gears. In...
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Chapter 4“Intellectual Power” for All: Theodore Sizer and the Origins of the Coalition of Essential Schools at Phillips Academy, Andover

Spencer, John P.

Pages: 53 –80

[In the 1980s and 1990s, one of the biggest names in discussions of the American high school was Theodore (Ted) Sizer, author of the influential book Horace’s Compromise (1984) and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES). This essay examines Sizer’s tenure as headmaster of Phillips...
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Chapter 5“A Living, Breathing, Curriculum”: Harlem Prep and the Power of Cultural Relevance, 1967–1974

Goldenberg, Barry M.

Pages: 81 –113

[This chapter explores the history of Harlem Prep, an independent, community-based high school that educated and sent to college many hundreds of students originally “pushed out” of education from 1967 to 1974. During these years, the school not only became a cherished Black community institution...
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Chapter 6Gendered Anxieties Pave the Way for a Separate and Unequal Co-educational High School

Kitzmiller, Erika M.

Pages: 115 –137

[Current scholarship on the expansion of the American high schools at the turn of the twentieth century often downplays the role that gender played in the decision that local communities made about when and where to build new high schools. This chapter asserts that anxieties about the dangers of...
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Chapter 7A Window into the World of Students: An Analysis of 1920s High School Student Newspapers

Cieslik-Miskimen, Caitlin

Pages: 139 –168

[In the 1920s, a distinctly new and important form of journalism emerged: the high school newspaper. Drawing on early journalism textbooks, education journals, and student newspapers themselves, this chapter discusses the early structure of these publications—their production process, place...
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Chapter 8Books, Basketball, and Order of the Fish: Youth Culture in Midwest Small-Town High Schools, 1900–1930

Stovey, Patricia

Pages: 169 –203

[This chapter examines the lived experience of early twentieth century small-town student life through the students’ perspective of extracurricular and student-led informal activites. The chapter focuses on the Midwest, using student memoirs, oral histories, yearbooks, and town papers to...
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Chapter 9“Fight for Your Land”: Southern High School Activism and the Struggle for Youth Autonomy During and After the Second World War

Hale, Jon

Pages: 205 –236

[This chapter examines the politics of southern high school student activism and the historically Black high school during and after the Second World War. As an institution designed to protect and prepare youth, the Black high school was the most important state institution in the lives of youth...
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Chapter 10The Hidden Politics of High School Violence

Stern, Walter C.

Pages: 237 –275

[This chapter demonstrates that political violence tied to the freedom rights of Black students was a national phenomenon in the civil rights–era high school. Additionally, it shows how responses to that violence systematically criminalized Black students by binding public schools to the growing...

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