The American People's College
The Lost Promise of Democracy in Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11366389 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jurgen Herbst (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 275-297 |
| Publication date | 1992-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-6744 • E-ISSN: 1549-6511 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/444018 |
| OpenAlex | W2091709069 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The people's college as a tax-supported public secondary school was America's distinctive educational institution of the nineteenth century. Intended as a school that prepared its graduates for leading positions in trade, business, and industry, it emphasized mental discipline and offered a curriculum of academic subjects. Open to all who could qualify, it attempted to join a quality education with an attempt to provide equality of opportunity. It lost its position as the defining institution of American secondary education when it was challenged to prepare its students for college as well as for employment. The result of that challenge was its replacement by the comprehensive high school in the early decades of the twentieth century
American education · Curriculum · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Institution · Pedagogy · Political science · Position (finance · Public relations · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |