A practical guide to making high schools serve society better, through thoughtful instruction and reform.
This classic work analyzes how traditional classroom habits can slow progress and how a broader view of instruction can align schools with social needs. It emphasizes the high school as an instrument for social interpretation, adjustment, and control, and it explores approaches that connect curriculum, student learning, and real-world purposes. The authors introduce the idea of project-problem instruction and discuss how senior and junior high programs can be reorganized to be more effective and relevant.
- Learn how to balance administration, curriculum decisions, and student activities to support learning.
- Discover project-problem instruction and the way it links study, recitation, and supervised work.
- See how topics from literature and history, math, science, health, and civics can connect to community needs and student growth.
- Consider how physical training, contemporary world history, and civic education fit into a cohesive, purpose-driven high school program.
Ideal for readers interested in educational reform, curriculum design, and classroom practices that aim to modernize high schools while keeping strong learning foundations.