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. Ed(S): Kantor, Harvey A.; Tyack, David - Work, Youth and Schooling - 9780804711210 - V9780804711210
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Work, Youth and Schooling

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Description for Work, Youth and Schooling Hardback. At the beginning of the 20th century, American reformers saw vocational education as a promising way to cure many of the nation's economic and social ills. These essays address the question of whether the ensuing educational reforms had any effect on the problems they were supposed to solve. Editor(s): Kantor, Harvey A.; Tyack, David. Num Pages: 380 pages, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, American reformers saw vocational education as a promising way to cure many of the nation's economic and social ills. But the ensuing educational reforms had disappointingly little effect on the problems they were supposed to solve. Today we are still distressed by the extent of unemployment among young people, especially blacks and other minorities, and our doubts about the effectiveness of schools in preparing young people for work have never been greater. Did vocational education go wrong? Or were the problems so deep-rooted that the schools could not solve them? These are the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804711210
SKU
V9780804711210
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