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Autor/in | Herbst, Jurgen |
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Titel | The American People's College: The Lost Promise of Democracy in Education. |
Quelle | In: American Journal of Education, 100 (1992) 3, S.275-97Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0195-6744 |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Academic Education; College Preparation; Democracy; Educational Change; Educational History; Job Training; Public Schools; School Role; Secondary Education; Tax Allocation; United States History; Urban Schools; Vocational Education |
Abstract | Describes the "people's college" as the distinctive nineteenth-century educational institution of the United States. These tax-supported public secondary schools prepared graduates for business and industry but lost their position as the defining secondary institution when challenged to prepare students for college as well as employment. (SLD) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |