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Direct linkMirel, Jeffrey – Education Next, 2006
For more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools. The origins of this long-running argument can be traced to 1893, when the influential Committee of Ten, a bluechip panel of educators, issued a report proposing that all public…
Descriptors: High Schools, Conventional Instruction, Educational History, Public Schools
