World We Created at Hamilton High

Name: World We Created at Hamilton High
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ISBN: 9780674962019

ISBN-10: 067496201X

ISBN-13: 9780674962019

Edition: 1988

Authors: Gerald Grant

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In this wonderfully evocative picture of an urban American high school and its successes and setbacks over the past thirty-five years, Gerald Grant works out a unique perspective on what makes a good school--one that asserts moral and intellectual authority without becoming rigidly doctrinaire or losing the precious gains in equality of opportunity that have been won at great cost. Grant describes what happened inside Hamilton High (a real school, although its identity is disguised), and how different worlds evolved as the school's authority system was transformed. After the opening of Hamilton High in the buoyant and self-confident 1950s, the school plunged into a period of violence and…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Gerald Grant is the Hannah Hammond Professor of Education and Sociology, Emeritus at Syracuse University.



Introduction



Biography of a School



An Elite Public School, 1953-1965



Deconstruction of the Old World, 1966-1971



Let the Students Decide, 1971-1979



The Second Transformation, 1980-1985



Making a World



Why Schools Differ



The Teacher's Predicament



Creating a Strong Positive Ethos



Two Essential Reforms


Epilogue: Voices from Hamilton High


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index