Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
ISBN-10
0773507469
ISBN-13
9780773507463
Category
Education
Pages
411
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Authors
Millar, Gidney, Robert Douglas Gidney

Description

The received view is that secondary education in Ontario is a result of Egerton Ryerson's Education Act of 1871. But R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar show that Ryerson and the Provincial Education Office responded to rather than directed policy in higher education. In fact, the system in place today is evidence of Ryerson's failure to implement the programs he wanted.

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