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The diverted dream : community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 1900-1985 / Steven Brint, Jerome Karabel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 312 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199729265
  • 0199729263
  • 1423763726
  • 9781423763727
  • 9786610439874
  • 6610439877
  • 1280439874
  • 9781280439872
  • 1601296479
  • 9781601296474
  • 9780197560044
  • 0197560040
  • 0199878803
  • 9780199878802
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Diverted dream.DDC classification:
  • 378.73 22
LOC classification:
  • LA226 .B74 1989eb
Other classification:
  • 81.80
  • D 9200 US 36
  • DV 2850
  • 5,3
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-299) and index.

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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.

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.

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