The World We Created at Hamilton High

The World We Created at Hamilton High is a 1988 non-fiction book by Gerald Grant, published by Harvard University Press.

The book documents the educational history of a high school in the Northeastern United States that the work refers to as "Hamilton High School"; the book does not disclose the actual name of the school.^[1] The school documented is actually Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York.^[2][3]

Grant argued in favor of school autonomy.^[4]

Grant, in 1988, worked for Syracuse University in the education and sociology fields, at the professor rank.^[4] He served as a consultant to get the subject school improved.^[5] William Graebner of State University of New York at Fredonia described Grant as "optimistic" and "reform-minded".^[6]

The school was a heavily non-Hispanic white school at the beginning of its history,^[1] when it was a university preparatory school.^[2] The school's racial composition changed during desegregation busing. Racial tensions increased in the late 1960s and early 1970s,^[1] as did the amount of crime.^[3] John Rouse of St. Peter's College argued that the book shows how teachers' sense of power in the classroom eroded, citing how the portraits of teachers in the yearbook were moved to the back of the publication.^[5]

Racial tensions then subsided by the 1980s along with a return of student discipline. In the 1980s a large number of students from Asian countries began enrolling.^[1] Grant argued that these changes had happened in multiple schools in the United States during the portion of the 20th century.^[2]

Nicholas Lemann of The Atlantic wrote that Grant was "optimistic[...]almost jarringly so" about the future state of race relations, and that Grant had "not a hint of the feeling that if we would just return to the race relations of the fifties, everything would be all right."^[3]

Graebner interpreted the work as having concern for teachers having lost their sense of authority.^[7]

• Hope and Despair in the American City – Another book by Grant

• Graebner, William (1990). ""The World We Created at Hamilton High" (Book Review)". History of Education Quarterly. 30 (2): 271–274. doi:10.2307/368681. JSTOR 368681. S2CID 149926213.
• Rouse, John (1989). "Books for Teachers: The World We Created at Hamilton High". English Journal. 78 (6). National Council of Teachers of English: 87–89. doi:10.2307/817935. JSTOR 817935. - View article at ProQuest

Journal articles in English:

• Brown, Laurence (1988). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". Phi Delta Kappan. 70 (4): 339.
• Cusick, Philip A. (1989). "The World We Created at Hamilton High . Gerald Grant". American Journal of Education. 97 (3): 319–321. doi:10.1086/443931.
• Delamont, Sara (1989). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". The Sociological Review. 37 (2): 398–401.
• Farmer, Rod (1989). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". The Humanist. 49 (1): 42.
• Finn, Chester E (1989). "The Pitfalls of School Reform – The World We Created at Hamilton High by Gerald Grant / Disruptive School Behavior: Class, Race & Culture by Judith Lynne Hanna". Public Interest (94): 114.
• House, Ernest R (1989). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 504: 161–163. doi:10.1177/0002716289504001050. S2CID 220854704.
• Ingersoll, Richard (1989). "The World We Created at Hamilton High (see IRPS No. 43/88c01094)". Qualitative Sociology. 12 (3): 327–330.
• Kallick, David P (1989). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". Yale Journal on Regulation. 6 (1): 169.
• Kantor, Harvey A; Lowe, Robert (1989). "Essay Reviews: Reform or Reaction?". Harvard Educational Review. 59 (1): 127. doi:10.17763/haer.59.1.t5136851398383gt. - Review of this book
• Kurth, Robert W. (1989). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". International Review of Modern Sociology. 19 (1): 117–118.
• Makler, Andra (1991). ""The World We Created at Hamilton High" (Gerald Grant) (Book Review)". Journal of Moral Education. 20 (1): 98.
• Natriello, Gary (1989). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". Contemporary Sociology. 18 (4): 625–626. doi:10.2307/2073139. JSTOR 2073139.
• Park, Rosemary (1988). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". Change. 20 (4): 61. doi:10.1080/00091383.1988.9939166.
• Parkay, Forrest W. (1990). "The World We Created at Hamilton High by Gerald Grant. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988, 285 pp., hardcover. (ISBN 0-674-9200-1)". The Educational Forum. 54 (3): 325–328. doi:10.1080/00131729009335552.
• Puckett, John L (1989). "Gerald Grant "The World We Created at Hamilton High" (Book Review)". Educational Studies. 20 (1): 59. doi:10.1207/s15326993es2001_2.
• Reinsmith, William A. (1988). "Why They're Not Sending Us Good Students: The World We Created at Hamilton High". College Teaching. 36 (4): 144–146. doi:10.1080/87567555.1988.10532135.
• Ryan, Kevin (1988). "Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going in the Public Schools". Phi Delta Kappan. 70 (4): 339–340. - Review of this book
• Stockard, Jean (1990). "Book reviews – The World We Created at Hamilton High by Gerald Grant". Sociological Inquiry. 60 (4): 453–454.
• Tout, Frank L (1989). "Reviews: The World We Created at Hamilton High". Educational Leadership. 47 (1): 89.
• "The World We Created at Hamilton High". The Education Digest. 53 (9): 67. 1988.
• "The world we created at Hamilton High". The Public Interest (94): 114. 1989.
• "The World We Created at Hamilton High". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 64 (132). 1988.

Magazine articles in English:

• Noah, Timothy (1988). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". Washington Monthly. 20 (5): 57.
• Howard, Philip K (2019). "Can common sense fix our broken democracy?". America. 220 (14). New York City: 1–4.

Articles in French:

• Derouet, Jean-Louis (1990). "The World we Created at Hamilton High". Revue française de pédagogie [fr] (in French). 93 (1): 112–117 – via Persée.

Precursor articles:

• Grant, G (1985). "The World We Created at Hamilton High". The Antioch Review. 43 (4): 385–400. doi:10.2307/4611514. JSTOR 4611514.

• The World We Created at Hamilton High - Harvard University Press