The lingering effects of failed education policies of the 1960s and 1970s still undermine England's comprehensive schools, the head of Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said on Friday as he called on ...

It is still assumed that every working-class child who passed the 11-plus during the grammar school era went on to become Melvyn Bragg. Apart from the girls, of course, all of whom became Joan ...

Comprehensive school reform, or CSR, is among the waves of improvement efforts that radiated from the 1983 report A Nation at Risk, a landmark indictment of U.S. public schools. CSR focuses on ...

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