Foreword
John I. Goodlad

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Vignette: Wilford Merton Aikin (1882-1965): Hope, Success, and Realistic Expectations

1. The Educational Context of the Eight-Year Study

Vignette: V. T. Thayer (1886-1979): A Middle Position of Integrity without Compromise

2. Tests and Records: The Veneer of College Admissions

Vignette: Eugene Randolph Smith (1876-1968): Recognizing "the futility of statistics as an end in itself"

3. An Essential Faith: From Tests and Measurement to Appraisal and Evaluation

Vignette: Understanding Ralph Tyler (1902-1994)

4.  Guidance, Human Relations, and the Study of Adolescents

Vignette: Alice V. Keliher (1903-1995): Fate, Frank, and Film

5. The Conception of Needs: A Dilemma of Progressive Education

Vignette: Caroline Zachry (1894-1945): None Quite Like Our Dr. Zachry

6. The Core Curriculum: Rethinking Curriculum and Instruction

Vignette: Harold Alberty (1890-1971) and the Quest for Core

7. The Importance of Social Philosophy: Democracy as a Way of Life

Vignette: Boyd H. Bode (1873-1953): Philosophy Brought Down to Earth

8. Staff Development: Teacher Workshops as Personal and Professional Growth

Vignette: Margaret Willis (1899-1987): And Gladly Would She Learn

9. Reexamining Secondary Education in America

Appendix A: The Thirty Schools of the Commission on the Relation of School and College
Appendix B: Testing Bureaus and Projects Related to the Aikin Commission
Appendix C: Excerpt from a Comprehensive Student Record

Glossary
Abbreviations
Notes
Annotated Bibliography
Index