| 1 | | Introduction - The Death of the Comprehensive High School? Historical, Contemporary, and Comparative Perspectives by Barry M. Franklin and Gary McCulloch | | 3 |
| 2 | | Custodialism and Career Preparation in a Comprehensive High School, 1929-1942 by Sevan G. Terzian | | 19 |
| 3 | | Education for All American Youth (1944): A Failed Attempt to Extend the Comprehensive High School by Wayne J. Urban | | 37 |
| 4 | | The Comprehensive High School, Enrollment Expansion, and Inequality: The United States in the Postwar Era by John L. Rury | | 53 |
| 5 | | Breathing Life into Small School Reform: Advocating for Critical Care in Small Schools of Color by Rene Antrop Gonzalez and Anthony De Jesus | | 73 |
| 6 | | Soul Making in the Comprehensive High School: The Legacies of Frederick Wisemans High School and High School II by Jose R. Rosario | | 93 |
| 7 | | The End of the Comprehensive High School? African American Support for Private School Vouchers by Thomas C. Pedroni | | 111 |
| 8 | | The Formation of Comprehensive Education: Scandinavian Variations by Susanne Wiborg | | 131 |
| 9 | | Missing, Presumed Dead? What Happened to the Comprehensive School in England and Wales? by David Crook | | 147 |
| 10 | | The Comprehensive Ideal in New Zealand: Challenges and Prospects by Gregory Lee and Howard Lee and Roger Openshaw | | 169 |
| 11 | | "My Parents Came Here with Nothing and They Wanted Us to Achieve": Italian Australians and School Success by Pavla Miller | | 185 |
| 12 | | Epilogue - The Future of the Comprehensive High School by Gary McCulloch and Barry M. Franklin | | 201 |