Product Description: This book authoritatively states the case for comprehensive schooling in the 21st Century. The arguments that transformed secondary education in Britain in the 1960s and 70s have even greater relevance now. Edited by two of the most distinguished advocates of comprehensive education, Clyde Chitty and Brian Simon, contributors also include Geoff Carr, Jon Duveen, Mike Davies, Patrick Eavis, Tony Edwards, Philippe Harari, Richard Hatcher, Ken Jones, Rachel Jones, Carole Regan, Margaret Tulloch, Geoff Whitty, Bob Wood and John Yandell...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume examines the role of the state in education. The opening essay, "Why should we teach the history of education?", sets out to make a renewed case for the study of the history of education by all those involved in the educational process, especially policy-makers...read more

Product Description: Brian Simon examines various aspects of the working of Kenneth Baker's 1988 Act, from the opting out of schools to the effect on curriculum development of the imposition of a national curriculum, from the success (or otherwise) of the much vaunted City Technology Colleges to the consequences of testing children from the age of seven...read more

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