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Compromise and Diversity in the American High School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Herbert M. Kliebard
Herbert M. Kliebard*
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , Spring 1987 , pp. 89 - 100
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Copyright © 1987 by the History of Education Society 

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