Making a Mass Institution - Indianapolis and the American High School

Indianapolis began its secondary system with a singular, decidedly academic high school, but ended the 1960s with multiple high schools with numerous paths to graduation. Making a Mass Institution describes how this process created both a distinct youth culture and a divided and unjust system, one that effectively sorted students geographically, economically, and racially.

List of contents

Contents

Introduction

1          Shortridge, then Manual, then Arsenal: Indianapolis Defines and Develops a High School System, 1890-1919

2          Forced Segregation and the Creation of Crispus Attucks High School, 1919-1929

3          The High School Moves to the Center of the American Adolescent Experience, 1929-1941

4          An End to De Jure School Segregation, Crispus Attucks Basketball Success, and the Limits of Racial Equality, 1941-1955

5          "Life Adjustment" Education, Suburbanization, Unigov, and an Unjust System by a New Name, 1955-1971

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index



 

About the author

KYLE P. STEELE is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

Product details

• Authors: Kyle P Steele, Kyle P. Steele
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781978814400
• ISBN: 978-1-978814-40-0
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: History of Education; New Directions in History; New Directions in the History of Education
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system