The Adolescent Society: James Coleman's still-prescient insights.(feature)

Education Next | January 1, 2006 | Copyright

The high-school problem is nothing new. In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the "Coleman Report") and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high-school problem: "our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society." Thus the title of his classic work, The Adolescent Society, published in 1961, the germ of which first appeared in the Harvard Education ...

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