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The Fight for – or over – Education

The Fight for – or over – Education

SCRAPPING OVER EDUCATION Chris Bratcher Fifty years ago, Labour’s education minister, Anthony Crosland, issued a circular requesting Local Educational Authorities to convert their grammar and secondary modern schools into comprehensives. Grammar schools were of two types. There were more than 1,200 maintained grammar schools, mostly post-Victorian creations seeking to emulate the 179 older and highly academic […]

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