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Download full textRury, John L. – 1999
James Bryant Conant issued his famous report, "The American High School Today," in 1959, giving voice to a clear and influential reaffirmation of the comprehensive secondary school. Conant's vision in this, and in another work, "Slums and Suburbs" (1961) makes an interesting point of departure for consideration of the forces…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Comprehensive Programs, Consolidated Schools
Husen, Torsten – 1973
The comprehensive-versus-selective school issue is primarily a socio-politico-economic rather than pedagogic problem. The International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) had as its primary objective to relate certain social, economic and pedagogic characteristics of the different systems to the outcomes of instruction in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Philosophy
