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ERIC Number: EJ654814
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Democracy's High School? Social Change and American Secondary Education in the Post-Conant Era.
Rury, John L.
American Educational Research Journal, v39 n2 p307-36 Sum 2002
Discusses James Conant's ideas about the democratic role of the comprehensive high school and addresses just how those ideas have been treated by history. Major historical events have converged in the post-World War II period to make Conant's view of the democratic high school problematic, at least in large metropolitan areas. (SLD)
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Philosophy, High Schools, School Role, United States History, Urban Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Conant (James Bryant)
Note: Special Issue on Education and Democracy. Research supported by the Spencer Foundation. Version of the paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 1999) and conferences at three universities.