Bullock (1975)

(page numbers in brackets)

Notes on the text
Preliminary pages (i-xxxvi)
Foreword, Membership, Contents, Introduction

Part 1 Attitudes and Standards
Chapter 1 (3-9)
Attitudes to the teaching of English
Chapter 2 (10-35)
Standards of reading
Chapter 3 (36-44)
Monitoring

Part 2 Language in the Early Years
Chapter 4 (47-50)
Language and learning
Chapter 5 (51-74)
Language in the early years

Part 3 Reading
Chapter 6 (77-96)
The reading process
Chapter 7 (97-114)
Reading in the early years
Chapter 8 (115-123)
Reading: the later stages
Chapter 9 (124-138)
Literature

Part 4 Language in the Middle and Secondary Years
Chapter 10 (141-161)
Oral language
Chapter 11 (162-187)
Written language
Chapter 12 (188-193)
Language across the curriculum

Part 5 Organisation
Chapter 13 (197-212)
The primary and middle years
Chapter 14 (213-219)
Continuity between schools
Chapter 15 (220-237)
The secondary school
Chapter 16 (238-242)
LEA advisory services

Part 6 Reading and Language Difficulties
Chapter 17 (245-265)
Screening, diagnosis and recording
Chapter 18 (266-276)
Children with reading difficulties
Chapter 19 (277-283)
Adult literacy
Chapter 20 (284-295)
Children from families of overseas origin

Part 7 Resources
Chapter 21 (299-313)
Books
Chapter 22 (314-327)
Technological aids and broadcasting

Part 8 Teacher Education and Training
Chapter 23 (331-346)
Initial training
Chapter 24 (347-356)
In-service education

Part 9 The Survey
Chapter 25 (359-510)
The Survey

Part 10 Sumary of Conclusions and Recommendations
Chapter 26 (513-560)
Conclusions and recommendations

Appendix A (561-576)
Witnesses and sources of evidence
Appendix B (577-584)
Visits made
Glossary (585-595)
Index (596-609)

Report of the Committee of Enquiry appointed by the Secretary of State for Education and Science under the Chairmanship of Sir Alan Bullock FBA

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1975
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

ISBN 0 11 270326 7

Notes on the text: revised version (January 2010)

The full text of the report (including the Appendices) is online, with two exceptions (see The Survey below).

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The Survey
The Bullock Report was based on a large-scale survey of 2,000 schools in England. The results are presented in Chapter 25, which in this revised version is presented as a single file (rather than three separate files as in the previous version). I have omitted Parts IV and V. Part IV contains the Questionnaire Forms, the information from which is presented in Parts I - III of the survey. Part V consists of technical notes on the statistics which are probably of little value to those interested in the teaching of English.

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