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Tanner, Daniel – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
The USA was the first nation to attain universal secondary education through the creation of a unitary school structure capped by the uniquely American institution, the comprehensive or cosmopolitan high school. Other leading democratic nations adopted the comprehensive model, but not until well after mid-twentieth century. The modern movement for…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Charter Schools