Once and Future School

Jurgen Herbst is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and of History at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has served as president of the American History of Education Society and of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. His most recent book is And Sadly Teach, a history of teacher education in the United States.

"...The Once and Future School is a valuable and important book. Herbst has produced the single best volume on the history of the American high school that we have to date, and, in the process, he raises some provocative questions about what secondary education in this country should look like in the twenty-first century American Journal ofEducation.""Far more than a history of secondary education, this volume is a thoughtful perspective on how and what schooling can become in a restructured education system that provides lifelong "careers in education." -- Choice

• Acknowledgments, Preface, 1 The Origins of Secondary Education, 2 Grammar Schools, Colleges, and Academies in Early America, The Nineteenth-Century Liberal Arts College, 4 The People’s College, 5 State Systems of Secondary Education, 6 Midwestern Democracy, 7 Between Town and Gown: The High School in Wisconsin, 8 Growing Pains, 9 The Committee of Ten, 10 From Manual to Vocational Education, 11 The Legacy of Vocational Education, 12 Toward the Comprehensive High School, 13 The High School Under Siege, 14 The High School in Search of Itself, 15 End of an Era, 16 From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century, Notes, Index