Education

Question 1

What was the 1918 education act?

Answer 1

Funding from LEAs transferred to GOV

Leaving age to 14

Thought this would increase pay for teachers + standardise resources

Question 2

What was the education curriculum like 1918?

Answer 2

Practical instruction (for the less clever in prep for industry)

Advanced instruction (

Question 3

What was the Haddow Committee 1926 report?

Answer 3

Reccommended leaving age to 15

Recommended speration of primary and secondary school moving at 11

(Wasn’t adopted due to cost + control under LEAs)

Question 4

What percentage of children were in education 1920s?

Answer 4

20%

Question 5

What were elementary schools like before the war?

Answer 5

Free

classes up to 50

Learning through Rote

Not many secondary schools availbible and varying in quality

Question 6

What percentage of WC children aged 13 or above were still in school before the war?

Answer 6

13%

Some given scholarships to grammar schools only clever

Question 7

What did the butler act do?

Based on Beveridge report

Answer 7

raised leaving age to 15 (enforced)

Tripartite sysetm- Grammar academic curriculum and helped poor areas,
secondary moderns 75%,
Technical schools 3%

State schools could no longer charge fees, would move to taxation.

Accused of soical division with system

Question 8

When and where was the first comprehensive built?

Answer 8

1954 (critics wanted more)

allowed chnages of courses

Question 9

What was the 1959 Crowther report?

Answer 9

leaving age to 16

creating county colleges and more technical colleges

more sixth form courses

Question 10

What was the Newsom report and when?

Answer 10

1963 ‘half our future’ linked to 50% of children recieving compareitvely poor education

Little continuity in cities as big turnover of teachers

Should be all types of curricula not just academia

Should investigate links between poverty + poor education

Question 11

What was the circular 10/65 policy?

Answer 11

wanted to end eleven plus

ended grammar schools in most places.

Was an encouragement to LEAs to create comprehensives mainly through financial pressure

Most did abolish

Question 12

What was the 1976 education act?

Answer 12

Selection survived which angered many

Made LEAs submit proposals for comprehensives but not always acted on

Question 13

What was progressive education?

Answer 13

replacement of rote learning with child-centered learning (due to plowden)

Some saw great results with children having more say

some bad as little taught (press showed extreme examples)

Question 14

What was the plowden report?

Answer 14

1967 recommended banning corporal punishment

more freedom classroom

teachers to advise rather then lecture

Question 15

What group had 2000 members and disliked pregressive education?

Answer 15

1975

National Unio Of teachers

Thought it undermined british class system

Question 16

What was the Yellow Book?

Answer 16

1976

falling standards/behaviour in schools

said school discipline declined, school ciricula did not prepare for economy/ gov

Said public had little say over what happens in classroom

Question 17

What happened at Ruskin college?

Answer 17

chosen because it helped WC most and he thought they were effected the worst by Prog

said we should have a national curriculum, failed when not applied correctly and that teachers should be inspected.

Caused debate comprehensives too big/impersonal, teachers too much autonomy