When President Franklin Roosevelt formed the National Youth Administration (NYA) in June 1935, he declared that it would address "the most pressing and immediat

This provocative new study of the American high school examines the historical debates about curriculum policy and also traces changes in the institution itself

“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife,” wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Soci