Learning from Past Efforts to Reform the High School.

James, Thomas; Tyack, David

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Learning from Past Efforts to Reform the High School.

James, Thomas; Tyack, David

Phi Delta Kappan, v64 n6 p400-06 Feb 1983

Reviews the history of reform movements in secondary education in the context of the overall development of secondary education since the 19th century. Suggests treating reports advocating reform as position papers helping make broad social changes intelligible by revealing the shifting relationships between changing concepts of education and society. (PGD)

Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Research, Secondary Education, Social Action, Social Change

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Language: English

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