TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steele,Kyle P.
TI  - Making a Mass Institution: Indianapolis and the American High School 
T2  - New Directions in the History of Education
SN  - 9781978814431
AV  - LA285.I5 S74 2020
U1  - 373.772/52 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Education, Secondary
KW  - Indiana
KW  - Indianapolis
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - High schools
KW  - Segregation in education
KW  - EDUCATION / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Shortridge, Then Manual, Then Arsenal --; 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 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - Making a Mass Institution describes how Indianapolis, Indiana created a divided and unjust system of high schools over the course of the twentieth century, one that effectively sorted students geographically, economically, and racially. Like most U.S. cities, 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. Some of the schools were academic, others vocational, and others still for what was eventually called “life adjustment.” This system mirrored the multiple forces of mass society that surrounded it, as it became more bureaucratic, more focused on identifying and organizing students based on perceived abilities, and more anxious about teaching conformity to middle-class values. By highlighting the experiences of the students themselves and the formation of a distinct, school-centered youth culture, Kyle P. Steele argues that high school, as it evolved into a mass institution, was never fully the domain of policy elites, school boards and administrators, or students, but a complicated and ever-changing contested meeting place of all three
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