Reports on the United Kingdom's experience with comprehensive secondary education as a method of providing equal educational opportunity. Concludes that the trend toward compulsory equality, as represented by the comprehensive secondary school seems irreversible. (Author/IRT)

Analyzes approximately 500 published curricular timetables for upper secondary, college preparatory programs from over 100 countries, 1920-89. Virtually all timetables analyzed fell into four categories--classical, mathematics and science, arts and humanities, and comprehensive--consistent between countries and over time. Much programmatic change…

High schools and teacher training institutions in the United States exhibit different characteristics than those exhibited by similar schools in other countries. These differences are rooted in America's history and help explain why secondary education and higher education in America are not coordinated in ways that consistently promote…