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Direct linkHall, James; Eisenstadt, Naomi; Sylva, Kathy; Smith, Teresa; Sammons, Pamela; Smith, George; Evangelou, Maria; Goff, Jenny; Tanner, Emily; Agur, Maya; Hussey, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
This paper presents a review of the family services that were offered by a sample of 121 English Sure Start Children's Centres in 2011 and 2012. Children's Centres are community based facilities that aim to improve outcomes for at-risk families and children through the delivery of a range of services largely aimed at families with young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Delivery Systems, Community Services, Community Centers
Smith, George; Smith, Teresa – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
Focusing on data and policies from England, trends in educational disadvantage by area are traced from the late 1960s when the first pilot projects were established in the UK, to the present. The origins of these developments and the subsequent rises and falls of such area-based policies in England are reviewed. Specially collected data for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educationally Disadvantaged, Geographic Location
Smith, George; Smith, Teresa – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
A. H. Halsey has been a professorial fellow (now emeritus) at Nuffield College in Oxford University since his appointment in 1962 as Director of Oxford's Department of Social and Administrative Studies. This paper explores his contribution to education throughout his career, as an academic and as a national and international policy advisor, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Sociology, Public Policy, Educational Policy
Smith, George; Exley, Sonia – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
Claims are often made in British education about the extent to which policy reforms have been "borrowed" from overseas. Based on interviews with senior civil servants and HMI, this paper addresses the extent to which such claims apply to central government educational policy-making at school level in England between 1985 and 1995. This was a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Districts, Public Schools, Interviews
Peer reviewedSmith, George; James, Terry – Oxford Review of Education, 1975
Prefaced by an interpretation of American preschool studies, a semihistorical approach is used in presenting findings from preschool experiments from the West Riding Educational Priority Area project in England, with a purpose being to suggest some alternatives and to sketch a framework for explaining the conflicting results. (ND)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Development, Educational Experiments
Peer reviewedSmith, George – Oxford Review of Education, 1987
Examines why, after a successful beginning, EPA programs faltered and all but disappeared by the end of the 1970s. Concludes that while there were many causes, three major factors were the failure of the EPA to respond to changing values, changing base of research support, and the worsening conditions of the inner city. (Author/JDH)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational History, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
