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Direct linkWilliams, Emma-Louise; Rosen, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
One of the least recorded and analysed aspects of English and Welsh education is the personal experience of millions of people attending secondary modern schools following the 1944 Education Act. Since 2012, Emma-Louise Williams and Michael Rosen have hosted a moderated blog for self-selecting personal testimony from anyone involved. So far, some…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Secondary Schools, Educational Experience
Chitty, Clyde – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
In this slightly amended version of the talk with which the author opened the "Caught in the Act" Conference on 19 November 2011, he talks about fighting the most vicious right-wing government that England has known since the end of the Second World War--and one that is determined to destroy what's left of "a national system of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Federal Legislation, Secondary Schools
Benn, Melissa – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
In September 2011, the author published "School Wars: the battle for Britain's education." Since then she has been travelling around the country engaging in intense debates with parents, teachers, politicians and students about the current state of state education. It has been an interesting experience for it has brought her, a…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Foreign Countries, Public Service, Secondary Education
Hoare, Lottie – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
As a former comprehensive school pupil herself, the author wanted to know more about the women who had pioneered comprehensive schools in England. Therefore, she chose the headmistress and comprehensive school campaigner Dame Margaret Miles (1911-1994) as the subject of a dissertation for her History of Education MA at the Institute of Education,…
Descriptors: Documentaries, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, High Schools
Dash, Paul – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
This article reflects on the inequity of secondary modern school education. In doing so it draws heavily on the experience of the author while highlighting inputs from others who failed the 11+ examination and were banished to such schools. The article argues that selection undermines the self-esteem of secondary modern school pupils and places…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Federal Legislation
