| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890–1995. By David L. Angus and Jeffrey E. Mirel. (New York: Teachers College Press, 1999. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $58.00, ISBN 0-8077-3843-3. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-8077-3842-5.)

The "failed promise" of the American high school, according to David L. Angus and Jeffrey E. Mirel, was and continues to be its inability to provide equal educational opportunity. This failure is the ironic result of the dominant Progressive educational philosophy born in the early twentieth century that sought to increase equal educational opportunity by creating different curricular paths for the increasingly heterogeneous school-age population. The "comprehensive" high school, offering multiple paths to graduation under one roof, became the institutional manifestation of this philosophy. . . .

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