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ERIC Number: EJ300615
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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In Defence of Comprehensive Schools.
Heath, Anthony
Oxford Review of Education, v10 n1 p115-23 1984
British comprehensive schools have been criticized by the left for failing to provide equality for everyone and by the right for sacrificing academic standards for equality. Such simultaneous criticisms suggest that the schools have been assigned either impossible or contradictory objectives, but have managed to achieve a reasonable compromise. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, School Organization, Secondary Education
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Comprehensive Schools (Great Britain); Great Britain