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There is now a general consensus that public education systems in the English-speaking world are at best, in difficulty, or at worst in crisis. For some twenty years in Australia there have been public funding and student population shifts toward private and nongovernment schooling. In other countries, the problems develop differently. One form of public school, the comprehensive secondary school, has attracted a disproportionate share of criticism—the difficulties of the comprehensive high school provide a set of intractable problems to contemporary policy makers. It is this model of secondary schooling which carried the most socially optimistic visions associated with the upward extension of universal elementary schooling. The faltering of that vision has led to a new necessity to reconceptualize what universal secondary schooling should look like in the future.
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Campbell, C., Sherington, G. (2006). Introduction. In: The Comprehensive Public High School. Secondary Education in a Changing World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982919_1
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