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Toward Compulsory Educational Equality: The British Experience.

Shane, Catherine McKenzie; Shane, Harold G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979

Reports on the United Kingdom's experience with comprehensive secondary education as a method of providing equal educational opportunity. Concludes that the trend toward compulsory equality, as represented by the comprehensive secondary school seems irreversible. (Author/IRT)

Descriptors: Comparative Education, Comprehensive Programs, Equal Education, Foreign Countries

Ten Years On: Progress and Problems in Finland's School Reform.

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Whittaker, David J. – Comparative Education, 1983

Overviews Finnish schools before 1970 and highlights subsequent reforms. Groups reform problems under four headings: conceptual, attitudinal, administrative, and geographical. (BRR)

Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Comparative Education, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change