Comprehensive Public High School

GEOFFREY SHERINGTON is Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is an author and co-author of an impressive list of books which include studies of child migration, youth policy and social and institutional histories of education. They include Fairbridge: Empire and Child Migration (1998), Youth in Australia (1995), Learning to Lead (1987) and the pioneering English Education, Social Change and War 1911-1920 (1981). CRAIG CAMPBELL is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia and was

"This book is a very significant contribution to the important series of studies edited by Barry Franklin and Gary McCulloch. It breaks new ground by providing an authoritative and thoroughly researched account of the rise and fall of comprehensive schooling in New South Wales." - Roy Lowe, University of Birmingham "One of the important contributions the work of Campbell and Sherington offers is that it draws on a wide range of international literature and uses contemporary examples from England and the US to demonstrate the extent to which the comprehensive public high school in NSW was part of and contributed to the emerging tradition of secondary schooling in westernised nations. This text therefore has international appeal." - Tanya Fitzgerald, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand "Craig Campbell and Geoffrey Sherington make a major contribution to studies of the comprehensive high school, presenting a richly detailed, highly nuanced, and wonderfully thought provoking assessment of this institution in Australia." - Jeffrey Mirel, University of Michigan

• Introduction Origins of the Comprehensive High School Social and Political Contexts The Social Justice Era The Comprehensive High in an Education Market Embattlement and Survival Conclusion