public agencies and private institutions
"Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of Communities."
Basic Books, 10 East 53rd St., New York, N.Y. 10022. 243 pp. $21.95.
Authors: James S. Coleman and Thomas Hoffer
What makes a high school successful?
Coleman, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, and Hoffer, a research asso-ciate at Northern Illinois University's Pub- lic Opinion Laboratory, conducted a four- year study of 1,015 private and public high schools. They conclude t...
by Seymour Drescher
Oxford, 1987
300 pp. $19.95
edited by Robert Karl
Manoff and Michael
Schudson
Pantheon, 1986
246 pp. $19.95
edited by Paul Veyne
translated by
Arthur Goldhammer
Harvard, 1987
670 pp. $29.50
by Bemt Engelmann
Pantheon, 1987
335 pp. $21.95
by Thomas Bender
Knopf, 1987
422 pp. $25
by Stephen S. Cohen
and John Zysman
Basic, 1987
297 pp. $19.95
by David W. Southern
huisiana State Univ., 1987
341 pp. $35
by Alan Gowans
M.I.T., 1986
246 pp. $35