Elton (1989)

Notes on the text
Preliminary pages Contents, Foreword, Membership, Summary
Recommendations
Chapter 1 The enquiry
Chapter 2 The nature of the problem
Chapter 3 Teachers
Chapter 4 Schools
Chapter 5 Parents
Chapter 6 Pupils
Chapter 7 Attendance
Chapter 8 Police
Chapter 9 Governors
Chapter 10 Local education authorities
Chapter 11 Government
Appendix A Written evidence received
Appendix B Witnesses
Appendix C Visits
Appendix D(i) Teachers and Discipline Part I
Appendix D(ii) Teachers and Discipline Part II
Appendix E Selected bibliography
Appendix F Behaviour policies

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Appendix C: Visits
[pages 213 - 214]

During the course of the Enquiry, groups of Committee members visited the following 25 institutions:

Birmingham University, Department of Education
Brentfield Primary School, Brent
Bristol Polytechnic, Department of Education
Dillwyn Llewelyn Comprehensive Community School, Swansea
Edgar Stammers Junior School, Walsall
Filwood Park Junior School, Bristol
Glyncorrwg Primary School, West Glamorgan
Hainault High School, Redbridge
Hartridge School, Newport
Holyhead School, Birmingham
Loxford High School, Redbridge
Lowton High School, Wigan
Oxclose School, Sunderland
Philips High School, Bury
Spurley Hey High School, Manchester
St George School, Bristol
Sedgemoor Centre, Bridgewater
Seaton Bum High School, North Tyneside
Stephenson Memorial Middle School, North Tyneside
Speke Community Comprehensive School, Liverpool
Trelai County Primary School, Cardiff
The Mead (Stage 5) Centre, Bristol
Tirmorfa County Primary School, Port Talbot
Urban Studies Centre, Poplar, London
Wideopen Middle School, North Tyneside

The following 10 institutions also contributed to the Enquiry:

Chaucer Comprehensive School, Sheffield
Fairfax Community School, Bradford
Homelands School, Derby
John Ellis Community College, Leicester
Kersal High School, Salford
Park View School, Birmingham
Play Comprehensive School, Nottingham
Primrose Hill School, Leeds
Sidney Stringer School and Community College, Coventry
Thrybergh Comprehensive School, Rotherham

Committee members also visited the following 20 institutions abroad:

The Netherlands

Ministry of Education and Science, Zoetermeer
Project Bureau OVB, Rotterdam
Education Priority Field 9, Hoogvliet (centre for coordinating the region's education priority policy)
Anne Frank MAVO School, The Hague
De Starrenburg School SG, Rotterdam
J W Willemsen/Prinses Irene School, Amsterdam

Norway

Ministry of Church and Education, Oslo
Oslo City Education Authority
Fjell Primary School, Drammen
Hersleb Junior Secondary School, Oslo
Sagene Primary School, Oslo

USA

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton
US Department of Education - Centre for International Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Washington
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington
United States Information Agency, Washington
National Association of Secondary School Principals, Washington
Capitol Hill Cluster Schools - Peabody Elementary School, Watkins Elementary School and Stuart/Hobson Middle School, Washington
City-As-School, New York
Middle College High School, New York
The Door - A Center of Alternatives for Youth, New York

Committee members also met teachers involved in the US/UK exchange visit programme, at a conference at the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges in London.