The Politics of Educational Reform, 1920-40: Vol 3 (Study in History of Education)

by Brian Simon (Author)

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  1974

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  The third volume of the Studies in the History of Education , this book covers the crucial years 1920-1940, in which the ground was prepared for the 1944 Education Act and, likewise, for most of the conflicts which have beset educational policies in Britain since the end of World War II. In this period, Labour's programmes for educational reform came into conflict with a dwetermined Conservative resistance, and proposed reforms were repeatedly cut back by the call for economies, starting with the Geddes axe in 1921-22. At the same time, real power in the shaping of educational policies passed more and more into the hands of the permanent officials, the top civil service administrators of the Board of Education. The long-established divided system of education was consolidated by the development by pschologists of the theory and practice of psychometry and intelligence tests , while the privileged position of the public schools, already under challenge, was maintained intact.