Bullock (1975)

Notes on the text
Preliminary pages Foreword, Membership, Contents, Introduction

Part 1 Attitudes and standards
Chapter 1 Attitudes to the teaching of English
Chapter 2 Standards of reading
Chapter 3 Monitoring

Part 2 Language in the early years
Chapter 4 Language and learning
Chapter 5 Language in the early years

Part 3 Reading
Chapter 6 The reading process
Chapter 7 Reading in the early years
Chapter 8 Reading: the later stages
Chapter 9 Literature

Part 4 Language in the middle and secondary years
Chapter 10 Oral language
Chapter 11 Written language
Chapter 12 Language across the curriculum

Part 5 Organisation
Chapter 13 The primary and middle years
Chapter 14 Continuity between schools
Chapter 15 The secondary school
Chapter 16 LEA advisory services

Part 6 Reading and language difficulties
Chapter 17 Screening, diagnosis and recording
Chapter 18 Children with reading difficulties
Chapter 19 Adult literacy
Chapter 20 Children from families of overseas origin

Part 7 Resources
Chapter 21 Books
Chapter 22 Technological aids and broadcasting

Part 8 Teacher education and training
Chapter 23 Initial training
Chapter 24 In-service education

Part 9 The survey
Chapter 25: I Introduction
Chapter 25: II Primary commentary
Chapter 25: III Secondary commentary
Chapter 25: IV The questionnaire forms (not online)
Chapter 25: V Technical notes (not online)

Part 10 Sumary of conclusions and recommendations
Chapter 26 Conclusions and recommendations

Appendix A Witnesses and sources of evidence
Appendix B Visits made
Glossary
Index

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.

Appendix A Witnesses and sources of evidence
[pages 561 - 576]

1. WITNESSES WHO GAVE ORAL EVIDENCE

(i) ORGANISATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS

Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education
Mr RW Sefton-Davies, Chairman of Working Party on evidence to the Committee.
Mr D Farrelly, Member of Working Party on evidence to the Committee.
Mr P Grainge, Member of Working Party on evidence to the Committee.
Mr J Pearce, Member of Working Party on evidence to the Committee.
Mr J Way, Member of Working Party on evidence to the Committee.

Cambridge House Literacy Scheme
Miss Bridget O'Brien Twohig, Director.
Mrs Jenny Stevens, Assistant Director.

Fife LEA
Miss CM Douglas, Organiser of Early Education.
Mrs M Forrest, Assistant Head, Lynburn Primary School, Fife.

Inner London Education Authority
Mr Harvey Hinds, Chairman, Schools Sub-Committee.
Dr M Birchenough, Chief Inspector.
Miss N Goddard, Staff Inspector for Infant Education.
Mr J Welch, Staff Inspector for English.

Inner London Education Authority: Media Resources Service
Mr L Ryder.
Miss G Calloway.

The Joint Four Secondary Association
Miss MR Osborn, Chairman.
Mr BH Holbeche, Vice-Chairman.
Mr AWS Hutchings, Joint Hon. Secretary
Miss SD Wood, Joint Hon. Secretary

National Association of Head Teachers
Miss G Belson, Chairman, Professional Advice Committee.
Mr P Bowden, Executive Council Member.
Mr J Holt, Chairman, Education Academic Committee.
Mrs M Richards.

National Association for Remedial Education
Mr R Bushell, Chairman, Evidence Sub-Committee and County Advisory Officer, Staffordshire LEA.
Mr JE Perry, County Advisory Officer, Devon.
Mr M Peterson, Education Guidance Service, Derbyshire.

National Association of Schoolmasters
Mr F Smithies, Chairman, Education Committee.
Mr B Farrell, Vice-Chairman, Education Committee.
Mr RB Cocking, Ex-President.
Mr JD Marsh, Assistant Secretary.
Mr CW Slater, Executive Member.

National Association for the Teaching of English
Dr Andrew Wilkinson, Vice-Chairman.
Mr Anthony Adams, Secretary.
National Council for Educational Standards
Sir Desmond Lee, Hon. Secretary.
Dr Rhodes Boyson, MP.
Mr AR Harris.

National Foundation for Educational Research
Mr A Yates, Director.
Dr KB Start, Co-author 'The Trend of Reading Standards' (NFER 1971).
Dr R Sumner, Head of Guidance and Assessment Services.

National Union of Teachers
Mr RS Fisher, Chairman, Education Committee.
Mr FM Newrick, Assistant Secretary, Education Committee.
Mr J Bowdler, Member, Education Committee.
Miss MM Jones, Member, Education Committee.
Mr PJ Kennedy, Member, Education Committee.
Mr MH Flannery, Chairman, Advisory Committee for Primary Schools
Mr PL Griffin, Member, Advisory Committee for Primary Schools.
Mr J Sloman, Member, Advisory Committee for Special Schools.

Simplified Spelling Society
Mr SS Eustace, Hon. Secretary.
Mr F Gibbs, Committee Member.
Mr GG O'Halloran, Committee Member.
Mr WJ Reed, Committee Member.
Dr Zettersten, Cultural Attache of the Swedish Embassy.

United Kingdom Reading Association
Mr D Moyle, President.
Mr W Latham, Immediate Past-President.
Dr Margaret dark, Past-President.

(ii) INDIVIDUALS

The majority of witnesses also submitted written evidence.

Sir William Alexander, Secretary, Association of Education Committees (now Lord Alexander).
Dr Miriam Balmuth, Hunter College, City University, New York.
Mrs DJ Bantock, Teacher, The Grove School, Melton Mowbray.
Professor GH Bantock, Director of the School of Education, University of Leicester.
Mr Douglas Barnes, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Education, University of Leeds.
Professor Basil Bernstein, Head of the Sociological Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London.
Mr R Bird, Head of English Department, The Thomas Bennet School, Crawley, Sussex.
Mrs I Brady, Teacher, Essex Infant School, London Borough of Newham.
Dr EWH Briault, Education Officer, Inner London Education Authority.
Professor Jerome Bruner, Watts Professor of Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
Mr T Bryans, Educational Psychologist, London Borough of Croydon.
Mr K Bunch, Teacher, St. James's CE Junior School, London Borough of Newham.
Mr A Burgess, Lecturer, Institute of Education, University of London.
Sir Alec Clegg, Chief Education Officer, West Riding of Yorkshire.
Mr D Courts, Principal Lecturer and Head of the English Department, St. Peter's College of Education, Saltley, Birmingham.
Professor CB Cox, Professor of English Literature, University of Manchester.
Mrs Joan Dean, Chief Inspector of Schools for Surrey.
Mr John Dixon, Principal Lecturer in English, Bretton Hall College of Education.
Professor John Downing, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Miss GE Evans, Head of English Department, Crown Woods School, Eltham.
Mr P Gannon, Senior Lecturer in English, Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education, Oxford.
Dr Elizabeth Goodacre, Senior Lecturer, Middlesex Polytechnic at Trent Park, and Consultant to the Centre for the Teaching of Reading, School of Education, University of Reading.
Dr AH Halsey, Professorial Fellow and Head of the Department of Social and Administrative Studies, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Mrs EM Hawkins, Educational Psychologist, Inner London Education Authority.
Professor Hilde T Himmelweit, London School of Economics.
Mr D Labon, Senior Educational Psychologist, West Sussex County Council.
Miss Nancy Martin, Reader, Institute of Education, University of London.
Mrs L McCarthy, Teacher, Carpenters Primary School, London Borough of Newham.
Dr Joyce Morris, Author and Language Arts Consultant.
Dr Margaret Peters, Tutor, Cambridge Institute of Education.
Dr Douglas Pidgeon, Director of the Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation and former Deputy Director of the National Foundation for Educational Research.
Sir James Pitman KBE, Chairman, Council of Management, The Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation.
Dr Mia Kellmer Pringle, Director of the National Children's Bureau.
Mr MJ Rankine, HMI, Scottish Education Department.
Mr MF Riddle, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Arts and Social Studies, Middlesex Polytechnic.
Mr T Riley, Teacher, Star Junior School, London Borough of Newham.
Professor HA Robinson, Professor of Reading, Hofstra University, New York.
Mrs Betty Root, Tutor-in-Charge, Centre for the Teaching of Reading, School of Education, University of Reading.
Professor John Sinclair, Professor of Modern English Language, University of Birmingham.
Mr H Smith, Institute of Education, University of London.
Dr R Sumner, Head of Guidance and Assessment Services, National Foundation for Educational Research.
Mr B Thompson, Deputy Head, Lionel Road Junior School, Hounslow. Co-Author of 'Breakthrough to Literacy'.
Dr Joan Tough, Lecturer, Institute of Education, University of Leeds.
Mr JA Walker, Head of English Department, Heronswood School, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
Mr Frank Whitehead, Senior Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Sheffield.
Professor Andrew Wilkinson, Institute of Education, University of Exeter.
Mr S Wolfendale, Educational Psychologist, London Borough of Croydon.
Mr J Worsley, Research Associate, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Birmingham.
Mr A Yates, Director, National Foundation for Educational Research.

(iii) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

The members of HM Inspectorate listed below gave oral evidence. Some of them also submitted papers.

Mr LJ Burrows, CBE, HMI.
Miss KMP Burton, HMI.
Mr CWE Cave, HMI.
Mr RC Dove, HMI.
Mr M Edmundson, HMI.
Mr Eric Lord, HMI.
Mr AJ Luffman, OBE, HMI.
Miss E McDougall, HMI.
Mr P Phillips, HMI.
Mr N Thomas, HMI.
Mr E Whiteley, HMI.
Mr E Wilkinson, HMI.

Other members of the Department of Education and Science helped with information of various kinds, and we are grateful for the cooperation of the staff of the Department's Library.

2. WITNESSES WHO GAVE WRITTEN EVIDENCE

(i) ORGANISATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND OTHER BODIES

Advisory Centre for Education.
Assistant Masters' Association.
Association of Educational Psychologists.
Association of Institute and School of Education In-Service Tutors.
Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education.
Association for the Education of Pupils from Overseas (now National Association for MultiRacial Education).
Berkshire College of Education, Students' Union.
Bishop Otter College of Education.
Brighton College of Education.
Bristol Association for the Teaching of English.
Bristol Reading Centre.
British Association for Applied Linguistics.
Centre for the Teaching of Reading, Reading University.
Centre for Information on Language Teaching.
City of Cardiff College of Education.
College of Preceptors - Metropolitan Executive.
College of Speech Therapists.
Community Relations Commission.
Community Service Volunteers.
Confederation for the Advancement of State Education.
Confederation of British Industry.
Eastbourne College of Education.
Educational Publishers' Council.
English Speaking Board.
Federation of Children's Book Groups.
FKS Publishers (Film).
Home Office - Prisons Department.
Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools.
Independent Broadcasting Authority.
Inner London. Education Authority.
The Joint Four Secondary Associations.
Kempston Teachers' Centre, Bedford.
Keswick Hall College of Education,
Library Advisory Council for England.
Library Association.
Liverpool University Settlement.
National Association for the Teaching of English.
National Council for Educational Standards.
National Child Development Study.
National Association of Schoolmasters.
National Association of Head Teachers.
National Council for Educational Technology (now The Council for Educational Technology).
National Association for Remedial Education.
National Association of Divisional Executives for Education.
National Association of Inspectors of Schools and Educational Organisers.
National Foundation for Educational Research.
National Union of Students.
National Union of Teachers.
National Book League.
North London Dyslexia Association.
Oxfordshire LEA Primary Schools.
Priory Lane Junior School, Scunthorpe.
Professional Association of Teachers.
St. Albans Teachers' Centre.
School Broadcasting Council for the United Kingdom.
Schools Council Project - The Curriculum Needs of Slow Learning Pupils.
School Library Association.
Simplified Spelling Society.
Sittingbourne College of Education.
Society for Italic Handwriting.
Society of County Librarians.
United Kingdom Reading Association.
Union of Women Teachers.
West Midlands College of Education.

(ii) INDIVIDUALS

This list contains the names of individual witnesses who submitted written evidence. We are also grateful for the 226 letters we received which were an additional source of very helpful opinion and information.

Miss AM Adams, Research Worker.
Mr RY Anderson, Teacher-in-charge, Marsh Remedial Centre, Lancaster.
Mr H Armstrong James, Principal, Sunderland College of Education.
Miss S Augstein, School of Social Sciences, Brunei University.
Mr PG Baker, Curriculum Development Leader, North Oxfordshire Teachers' Centre.
Mr HW Bardens, Teacher, Gordon High School for Boys, Gravesend, Kent.
Mr JA Barnes, Chief Education Officer, Salford, Lancashire.
Mr CW Baty, formerly Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools.
Mr WA Bennett, Lecturer, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.
Mr GS Bessey, Chief Education Officer, Cumberland.
Mr JS Bishop, Chief Education Officer, Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames.
Mr J Blackie, formerly Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools.
Mr F Blackvvell, Director, Primary Extension Programme, Council for Educational Technology.
Mr E Bleasdale, Headmaster, St. Osmund's RC School, Bolton; and Author.
Mr JMO Bodmin, Director and General Manager, ESA Creative Learning Limited.
Mr I Bolger, Deputy Head, St. Gregory's School, Ealing.
Mr GE Bookbinder, Head of Reading Advisory Service, Salford, Lancashire.
Mr T Booth, Research Psychologist, Department of Child Psychology, Guy's Hospital, London.
Dr R Boyson, MP, formerly Headmaster, Highbury Grove Comprehensive School, London.
Mr S Bradford, European Manager, Scott Foresman Publishing Company.
Mrs PE Bradley, Part-time Tutor-in-charge, Reading Centre, School of Education, University of Leicester.
Miss M Brearley, formerly Principal, Froebel Institute.
Mr WK Brennan, Director, Schools Council Project - The Curricular Needs of Slow Learning Pupils.
Mr B Bryan, City of Leicester College of Education.
Miss EM Brown, Headmistress of an Infant School, Middleton, Manchester.
Mr DPJ Browning, Chief Education Officer, Southampton.
Mr D Butts, Head of Department of English Studies, Berkshire College of Education.
Mr T Buzan, Principal, College of Advanced Reading.
Mrs . Calcutt, Parent.
Mr B Cane, Deputy Principal, Sheffield College of Education.
Mr JL Carr, Publisher.
Mr HMC Carroll, Lecturer in Education, University College of Swansea.
Mrs KM Chacksfield, Headmistress, Chandler's Ford County Infant School, Hampshire.
Mr . Chambers, Head of Education Department, West Midlands College of Education.
Mr M Chazan, Co-Director, Schools Council Compensatory Education Research and Development Project, University of Swansea.
Sister Christine, Headmistress, St. Anne's RC Infant School, Kennington.
Mr JA Clark, Head of Science Department, St. Crispin's School, Wokingham.
Dr M Clark, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde.
Mrs EE Clarkson, Teacher, Longlevens Secondary School, Gloucester.
Mr GH Clare, Headmaster, St. Mary's Lower School, Caddington, Nr. Luton.
Miss FM Coar, Headmistress, Kingsley First School, Bournemouth.
Mr D Cookson, Educational Psychologist, Staffordshire County Council.
Miss PV Corr, Headmistress, Barrow Island County Infant School, Barrow-in-Furness.
Mr CT Crellin, Head of Education Department, Trent Park College of Education, Barnet, Herts.
Mr PW Daffon, Director, Reading Consultancy Service.
Miss QRA Daniels, Retired Teacher.
Mrs J Dean, Chief Inspector of Schools, Surrey.
Mr R Deans, Wurld Langwij Asqsiyon.
Mr T Derrick, Lecturer in Education, Post Graduate School of Studies in Research in Education, University of Bradford.
Mr H Diack, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Nottingham.
Dr A Dickson, Hon. Director, Community Service Volunteers.
Mr A Done, Head of English Department, Wilsthorpe Comprehensive School, Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
Miss MT Doyle, Teacher, St. Charles' Hospital School, Carstairs, Lanarkshire.
Mrs R Driscoll, Member of National Council, Professional Association of Teachers.
Professor E Edmonds, Professor of Education, University of Prince Edward Island.
Mrs JH Elfer, Remedial Teacher to three schools in Surrey.
Mr B Evan-Owen, Oxfordshire Remedial Service.
Mr J Fazackerley, Remedial Teacher, Nuffield Clinic, Plymouth.
Mr D Nor Ferris, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Exeter.
Mr G Fischer, Managing Director of 'Talking Page'.
Mr D Fiske, Chief Education Officer, Manchester.
Mr IS.Flett, Director of Education, Fife.
Mrs ED Foster, Headmistress, Cholsey County Infant School, Wallingford, Berkshire.
Mrs E Fraser, Supervising Tutor of the 'Speakwell' English classes for foreigners.
Mr H Fryer, Educational Sales Manager, Transworld Publishers Limited.
Mrs D Gardiner, Principal, Park Lodge School, Helensburgh.
Mrs B Gethings, Headmistress, Rendham County Primary School, near Saxmundham, Suffolk.
Mr T Gourdie, Teacher and Author.
Mrs Grabowska, Headmistress, Parklands County Infant School, Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
Mrs AC Greenman, Tutor in College of Education in South America.
Mrs R Greensmith, Headmistress, Wheatfields Infant School, Marshalwick, St. Albans.
Mrs EC Greenwood, Principal, Sittingbourne College of Education.
Mr B Groombridge, Head of Educational Programme Services, Independent Broadcasting Authority.
Mr Terry Hall, Ventriloquist.
Dr AH Halsey, Professorial Fellow and Head of Department, Department of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Oxford.
Mr WS Harpin, School of Education, University of Nottingham.
Mr GMA Harrison, Chief Education Officer, Sheffield.
Mr M Harrison, formerly Director of Education, Oldham.
Mr RK Harwood, The British Association for the Teaching of English.
Mr JL Haselden, Chief Education Officer, London Borough of Barking.
Miss EAE Hawes, Deputy Head, Cholsey County Infant School, Berkshire.
Professor EW Hawkins, Director, Language Teaching Centre, University of York.
Mr J Haynes, Chief Education Officer, Kent.
Mrs E Hazlehurst, Teacher, Ashton Park School, Bristol.
Mrs ML Heath, Representative of North London Dyslexia Association.
Mr B Heckle, Hon. Registrar, College of Teachers of the Blind.
Miss Janet A Hill, Children's Librarian, London Borough of Lambeth.
Mr RJ Hoare, Tutor/Librarian, St. Mary's College of Education, Twickenham.
Mr ME Holding, Headmaster, Eleanor Palmer Primary School, Tufnell Park, London.
Mr DM Hopkinson, HMI.
Mr DN Hubbard, Lecturer in Primary Education, Institute of Education, University of Sheffield.
Mr AA Hughes, Academic Registrar, Bishop Otter College of Education, Chichester.
Mr JM Hughes, Lecturer in Special Education, Caerleon College of Education.
Mrs M Hynds, Senior Lecturer, Philippa Fawcett College, London.
Mr J Izbicki, Education Correspondent, The Daily Telegraph.
Mr Digby Jacks, President of the National Union of Students.
Mr Brian Jackson, Director, Advisory Centre for Education.
Mr D Jackson, Headmaster, New Ash County Primary School, Dartford.
Mr DH Johnson, Manager, Vosper Thorneycroft (Training) Limited.
Mr RE Johnson, Headmaster, Sonning Common Primary School, Reading.
Mr SF Johnson, Head of Teaching Services Division, Social Services Department, Birmingham.
Mr Kenneth Jones, Author.
Mr P Kincaid, Member of Old Palace Group, Oxford (Adult Literacy Tuition).
Mr J Kirkham, formerly Principal Lecturer in English, Head of English Department, Kesteven College of Education.
Miss D Kuya, Senior Community Relations Officer, Liverpool Community Relations Council.
Mrs JM Lander, County Secretary, Cornwall Federation of Women's Institutes.
Mr JA Lane, Headmaster, Micklands County Primary School, Reading, Berkshire.
Mr HY Larder, Headmaster, Spendlove School, Charlbury, Oxford.
Mr L Law, Students' Union, Berkshire College of Education, Earley, Reading.
Mr D Lawrence, Educational Psychologist, Somerset. Mr A. Lawson, Warden, St. Albans Teachers' Centre.
Mrs DJ Leakey, Headmistress, Blagdon Road Nursery School, Reading.
Mrs F Leistikow, St. Bernard's School, New York City, USA.
Miss J Lennox-Barnes, Deputy Headmistress, Flinton Primary School, Hull.
Mr JHK Lockhart, Head of English Department, Greenford Grammar School, Greenford, Middlesex.
Miss B Lukasinska, Headmistress, Grimsbury County Infant School, Banbury, Oxon.
Dr P Mann, Reader in Sociology, University of Sheffield.
Mr N Marten MP.
Miss D Mason, Headmistress, St. Luke's Terrace Infant School, Brighton.
Mr MZ Mavro-Michaelis, Warden, Teachers' Centre, Kempston, Bedford.
Mr EW Maynard Potts, The National Education Association.
Colonel JK McConnel, Retired.
Miss S McCullagh, Author of Children's Stories.
Mr DJ McPherson, Head of Education Department, St. Mary's College of Education, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Mr TW Messenger, Senior Lecturer in English, Brighton College of Education.
Dr E Midwinter, Director of 'Priority' and Co-Director, Advisory Centre for Education.
Dr P Mittler, Hester Adrian Research Centre.
Professor B Morris, Professor of Education, University of Bristol.
Mr H Morris, Morris Advisory Services, Retford.
Mr C Moon, Deputy Head, Yatton Junior School, Bristol.
Mr DV Moseley, Principal Psychologist, Child Guidance Training Centre, London.
Mr J Mountford, Lecturer, Department of Education, La Sainte Union College of Education, Southampton.
Mr D Moyle, Principal Lecturer in Education, Edge Hill College of Education, Ormskirk.
Miss D Nash, Headmistress, Sea Mills Infant School, Bristol.
Mr BL Needle, Autoflex Publications.
Mrs M Newton, Applied Psychology Department, Aston University.
Mr J Nicholls, Head of English Department, Keswick Hall College of Education, Norfolk.
Mrs R Nichols, Educational Psychologist, Berkshire.
Professor J Nisbet, Head of Department of Education, University of Aberdeen.
Mrs EW Norton, Teacher, Claybourne School, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey.
Miss MM O'Brien, Principal, St. Thomas More's School, Totnes, South Devon.
Miss B O'Brien-Twohig, Director, Cambridge House Literacy Scheme.
Mrs C Obrist, Teacher and Lecturer.
Miss J O'Neill, Director of '121' Literacy Scheme, Liverpool University Settlement.
Dr GM Owen, Principal, St. Mary's College, The Park, Cheltenham.
Mrs SM Owen, Teacher, Netherhall Girls' School, Cambridge.
Mr LHM Parsons, Publisher, The Ant and Bee Partnership.
Dr HJ Peake, Principal, Sheffield City College of Education.
Mr G Peaker, formerly Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools.
Mr RC Phillips, Director, R. C. Phillips Limited.
Mr GR Potter, Chief Education Officer, West Sussex.
Mr J Potts, Senior Lecturer, St. Katherine's College, Liverpool.
Mr EE Powell, Headmaster, Llanedeyrn Junior School, Cyncoed, Cardiff.
Mr JL Presland, Educational Psychologist, Warwickshire.
Mr J Priest, Retired Headmaster.
Mr PD Pumfrey, Lecturer in Education, University of Manchester.
Sir Lincoln Ralphs, Chairman, Schools Council and formerly Chief Education Officer, Norfolk.
Mrs MJ Randle, Teacher, Woodcote County Primary School, Reading, Berkshire.
Mrs JM Ray, Adult Literacy Tutor, East Herts College of Further Education.
Mr W Reed, Simplified Spelling Society.
Miss J Reid, Lecturer in Educational Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
Mr KJ Revell, Chief Education Officer, London Borough of Croydon.
Miss M Richardson, Teacher, Adult Spastic Centre.
Mr MF Riddle, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Hendon College of Technology.
Mr LV Rigley, Lecturer in Child Development, University of London.
Mr JE Roberts, Headmaster, Caergeilog County Primary School, Anglesey.
Mr R Roberts, Manchester Council of Social Services.
Mr J Robertson, Educational Psychologist, Bedfordshire.
Mr SJ Rowan, Apprentice Recruiting Officer, Jarrow.
Mr CW Rowley, Senior Lecturer in Remedial Education, St. Peter's College, Saltley, Birmingham.
Dr ML Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, The Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital.
Mr JV Savage, Director, Educational Equipment Association.
Professor DB Scott, Professor of Mathematics, University of Sussex.
Mrs E Seaman, Norwich Feasibility Study, National Association for the Teaching of English.
Mr AM Shapiro, General Manager, Sight and Sound Education Limited.
Mr C Shepheard-Walwyn, Managing Director, Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Limited.
Mrs M Shields, Lecturer in Education, Department of Child Development, Institute of Education, University of London.
Mr NWR Sims, Senior Educational Psychologist, Bristol Reading Centre.
Mr VJ Sloman, Headmaster, Riverbank School, Cardiff.
Mrs ED Smelt, Australian Teacher and Author.
Mr LS Smith, Convenor, Language of Failure Sub-Committee, National Association for the Teaching of English.
Mr RL Snowdon, Vice-Principal, Northern Counties College of Education, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Mr J R, Standeven, Headmaster, Ravensthorpe Secondary Modern School, Dewsbury.
Dr KB Start, Co-Author of 'The Trend of Reading Standards' (NFER).
Mr L Stenhouse, Director, Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia.
Mr H Stephenson, Assistant Education Officer, Staffordshire.
Dr WED Stephens, Chief Education Officer, London Borough of Waltham Forest.
Major C Stevenson, Royal Army Education Corps.
Mrs LM Tarbox, Speech Therapist.
Mr DT Taverner, General Inspector for Primary Schools, London Borough of Newham.
Mr M Temple-Smith, Publisher.
Dr LF Thomas, Director, Centre for the Study of Human Learning, Brunei University.
Mr NR. Thomas, Headmaster, Woodhouse Close Junior School, Bishop Auckland.
Mrs B Thompson, Headmistress, Northwold Infant School, Clapton, London.
Mr KG Thompson, Librarian, Willowgraph High School, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire.
Mr G Thornton, Senior Inspector for English, Cheshire.
Mr KA Thorpe, Publisher, 'Trigger Books'.
Mr RC Todd, Lecturer in Sociology, Trinity and All Saints Colleges, Leeds.
Mr JRG Tomlinson, Chief Education Officer, Cheshire.
Mr NE Trowbridge, Head of the Audio-Visual Communication Department, Bishop Otter College, Chichester.
Mr G Trump, Headmaster, Chalice School, Glastonbury, Somerset.
Miss B Tudor-Hart, Teacher.
Mrs AL Tunnadine-Cooper, Chairman of the National Education Association (Surrey Branch).
Mr EW Turner, Headmaster, Rokeby Middle School, Rugby.
Mrs AL Vacher, Headmistress, St. John's Voluntary Controlled Infant School, Glastonbury, Somerset.
Mrs H Vegoda, Teacher.
Mr JM Wallbridge, Diagnostic Reading Adviser to the Inner London Education Authority, North Islington Project for Children with Special Difficulties.
Mr CD Waller, Teacher, Gravesend Upper School for Boys.
Mr AD Walters, Principal, Ethel Wormald College of Education, Liverpool.
Mrs B Wax, formerly Educational Psychologist, London and Surrey.
Mr J Webster, formerly Director, The Reading Clinic, St. Helier, Jersey.
Dr K Wedell, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Birmingham.
Mr G Wells, Research Fellow, School of Education, University of Bristol.
Mr P Widlake, Senior Research Assistant, Institute of Education, University of Birmingham.
Professor A Wijk, Retired Decent in English, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Mr JL Williams, Dean of the Faculty of Education, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Mrs M Wilson, Headmistress, New Denham County Primary School, Uxbridge.
Mr SS Wilson, Lecturer, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.
Mrs M Wood, Department of Education, University of Newcastle.
Mr DE Wright, Director, Educational Development Centre.
Mr PW Young, Tutor, Cambridge Institute of Education.