The diverted dream : community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 1900-1985 /
A history of community colleges in America; examines the shift of emphasis from liberal-arts transfer courses to terminal vocational programs and the implications of this for upward mobility.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1989.
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Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Community Colleges and the American Social Order
- Community Colleges in the United States: From Liberal Arts to Vocational Training
- Organizing a National Education Movement: 1900-1945
- The Takeoff Period: 1946-1970
- The Great Transformation: 1970-1985
- Community College Transformation at the State and Local Level: The Case of Massachusetts
- Designs for Comprehensive Community Colleges: 1958-1970
- The Process of Vocationalization: Mechanisms and Structures
- The Final Transformation in Massachusetts: Market Pressures, Fiscal Crises, and Business Influences, 1971-1985
- The Community College and the Politics of Inequality.