The author reviews the last five decades in the evolution of comprehensive education in England. (Editor/SJL)

Roger Seckington is chairman of RiCE, The Right to Comprehensive Education. He writes on his experiences over the last 20 years of the comprehensive movement. (Part of a theme issue on comprehensive education in Britain.) (Editor/SJL)

The author was a member of the national advisory group designated to advise England's Secretary of State on results of the comparative study of selective and nonselective secondary schools. Here he reviews this study, published in 1980 as "Progress in Secondary Schools" and discusses some criticisms of it. (Editor/SJL)

The author explores a number of issues which he feels will affect English schools, particularly comprehensive secondary schools, in the 1980s: standards (mixed ability teaching, testing, articulation); declining enrollment; parent/community participation in school governance; and external social change. Related trends in Europe and the United…

From his 20 years experience in modeling a comprehensive school according to genuinely comprehensive principles, the author gives a considered statement of his objectives and experiences. (This article is part of a theme issue on comprehensive education in Britain.) (Editor/SJL)

The author, headmistress of a central London comprehensive school, discusses the administrative, instructional, and community relations problems inherent in a mixed-ability urban school. (This article is part of a theme issue on comprehensive education in Britain.) (SJL)

Tracing the development of comprehensive schools in relation to working class protests against separate schools for different social classes, the author argues that comprehensives may yet fail because lower-class children continue to be patronized by teachers who feel they cannot learn. (Part of a theme issue on comprehensive education in…

The author sees a return to elitism in the educational policies of Britain's present Conservative Government. She analyzes two Parliamentary bills designed to reverse the 1976 comprehensive schools act and, in the name of parent choice, to establish new selective secondary school entry rules and to subsidize private education. (SJL)

In the 1970s, comprehensive secondary schools were mandated in England. This article reports a study of the effects of reorganization on seven East Midlands secondary schools. From interviews with administrators, information was collated concerning curricular changes occurring since reorganization, the formal organization adopted, and internal and…