ERIC Number: EJ1018393
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 4
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ISSN: ISSN-0963-8253
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Turning in Their Graves? A Tale of Two Coalitions--and What Happened in Between
Gillard, Derek
FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, v55 n3 p403-406 2013
Amid the horrors of the Second World War, a group of Board of Education officials met to plan a new public education system which would be fair to and free for all. In the seventy years since then, successive governments have not only failed to live up to their vision but have increasingly sought to interfere with the teaching and learning process and to dismantle the democratic edifice they created.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Educational Change, Access to Education, Politics of Education, Educational History, Government School Relationship, Educational Legislation, Government Role, Democracy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Education Act 1944 (England); Education Reform Act 1988 (England)
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