ABSTRACT

Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school.

The Once and Future School argues that to make sense of the current trials of secondary educational system and to maintain any sense of direction and vision for its future, we need a clear understanding of its path in the past and of its setting in a multi-national world. From their beginnings in colonial America to the present day, Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to hammer out and clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school.

chapter 1|9 pages

The Origins of Secondary Education

chapter 4|12 pages

The People’s College

chapter 5|13 pages

State Systems of Secondary Education

chapter 6|13 pages

Midwestern Democracy

chapter 8|15 pages

Growing Pains

chapter 9|10 pages

The Committee of Ten

chapter 10|14 pages

From Manual to Vocational Education

chapter 11|11 pages

The Legacy of Vocational Education

chapter 12|16 pages

Toward the Comprehensive High School

chapter 13|14 pages

The High School Under Siege

chapter 14|15 pages

The High School in Search of Itself

chapter 15|15 pages

End of an Era