The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1984 · 585 citations · 0 references

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Urban Portraits * George Washington Carver High SchoolCharismatic Leadership: Building Bridges to a Wider World * John F. Kennedy High School: Balancing Forces: Creating a Pluralistic Community Suburban Portraits * Highland Park High School: Hierarchies, Ambition, and Stress * Brookline High School: Emerging Forms of Authority and Diversity Elite Portraits * St. Pauls School: Certainty, Privilege, and the Imprint of History * Milton Academy: Breaking New Ground: Humanism and Achievement Group Portrait * On Goodness in High Schools * Afterword: The Passion of Portraiture