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The World We Created at Hamilton High is a 1988 non-fiction book by Gerald Grant, published by Harvard University Press. The book documents the educational history of a high school in the Northeastern United States that the work refers to as "Hamilton High School"; the book does not disclose the actual name of the school. [1]
Mar 1, 1990 · After the opening of Hamilton High in the buoyant and self-confident 1950s, the school plunged into a period of violence and radical deconstruction in the late sixties. Grant charts the rise of student power in the seventies, followed by new transformations of the school in the last decade occasioned in part by the mainstreaming of disabled ...
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Apr 12, 1988 · Grant describes what happened inside Hamilton High (a real school, although its identity is disguised), and how different worlds evolved as the school's authority system was transformed.
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Mar 15, 1990 · In this wonderfully evocative picture of an urban American high school and its successes and setbacks over the past thirty-five years, Gerald Grant works out a unique perspective on what makes a good school: one that asserts moral and intellectual authori...
Jan 7, 2020 · The world we created at Hamilton High. by. Grant, Gerald. Publication date. 1988. Topics. High schools -- United States -- Case studies, Education, Urban -- United States -- Case studies, Educational sociology -- United States. Publisher.
Grant describes what happened inside Hamilton High (a real school, although its identity is disguised), and how different worlds evolved as the school’s authority system was transformed.
Jan 10, 2020 · An elite public school, 1953-1965 -- Deconstruction of the old world, 1966-1971 -- Let the students decide, 1971-1979 -- The second transformation, 1980-1985 -- Why school differ -- The teacher's predicament -- Creating a strong positive ethos -- Two essential reforms -- Epilogue: Voices from Hamilton High. Access-restricted-item.
