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Hadow (1923)

Notes on the text
Preliminary pages Membership, Analysis, Preface, Introduction
Chapter 1 History of the curriculum in secondary schools
Chapter 2 The curriculum at present in use
Chapter 3 Differences between boys and girls
Chapter 4 General review of the evidence and conclusions
Appendix I List of witnesses
Appendix II List of publications
Appendix III Coeducational day schools
Appendix IV Music and art exams
Appendix V Dr JG Adami: memorandum
Appendix VI School timetables

The Hadow Report (1923)
Differentiation of the curriculum for boys and girls respectively in secondary schools

London: HM Stationery Office

Appendix II Short list of publications bearing on the curricula of secondary schools in England and Wales
[pages 148 - 154]

I: Official publications

BOARD OF EDUCATION:

Annual Reports of the Board of Education, 1904, and onwards. London: HM Stationery Office (Chapters dealing with Secondary Schools.)

Annual Reports of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education. (The Reports for 1910 onwards contain sections on Medical Inspection in Secondary Schools.) See especially Reports for 1912 (pp 13-17), for 1914 (pp 198-200), for 1920 (pp 26 and 157), and for 1921 (pp. 33 and 72) Sections 296 to 299 of the Report for 1920 deal with physical education in Secondary Schools for Girls.

Memoranda on teaching and organisation in Secondary Schools: London: HM Stationery Office 1909-1922.


Circular 561 Geography in Secondary Schools 1907 (Out of print.)
Circular 574 Latin in Secondary Schools 1910 (Out of print.)
Circular 599 History in Secondary Schools 1912.
Circular 705 Language teaching in State-aided Secondary Schools in England 1909.
Circular 719 Teaching of Needlework (Revised) 1922.
Circular 753 The teaching of English in Secondary Schools. 1910.
Circular 779 Physical Training in Secondary Schools 1911.
Circular 791 Pronunciation of Latin 1913.
Circular 797 Modem Languages 1912.
Circular 826 Curricula of Secondary Schools 1913 (Out of print.)
Circular 832 Music in Secondary Schools 1914.
Circular 851 Geometry 1914.
Circular 869 Modern European History 1914.
Circular 883 Curricula of Ruralised Secondary Schools 1914.
Circular 884 The place and use of graphs in Mathematical Teaching 1914.
Circular 891 Manual Instruction in Secondary Schools for Boys 1915.
Circular 1112 Memorandum on Advanced Courses 1919.
Report on Science Teaching in Public Schools represented on the Association of Public School Science Masters By Oswald H Latter (Educational Pamphlets, No 17.) London: HM Stationery Office 1909.

The teaching of Latin at the Perse School, Cambridge (Educational Experiments in Secondary Schools, No i Educational Pamphlets, No 20.) London: HM Stationery Office 1910.

Report of the Consultative Committee on Examinations in Secondary Schools London: HM Stationery Office 1911 (Cd 6004.)

Interim Memorandum on the teaching of Housecraft in Girls' Secondary Schools London: HM Stationery Office 1911.

Report of the Consultative Committee on Practical Work in Secondary Schools London: HM Stationery Office 1913 (Cd 6849.)

The teaching of Greek at the Perse School, Cambridge (Educational Experiments in Secondary Schools, No iii Educational Pamphlets, No 28.) London: HM Stationery Office 1914.

The experiment in rural secondary education conducted at Knaresborough (Educational Experiments in Secondary Schools, No iv, Educational Pamphlets, No 29.) London: HM Stationery Office. 1915 (A Coeducational Day School.)

Report of the Departmental Committee on the Organisation of Secondary Education in Wales London: HM Stationery Office. 1920 (Cmd 967.)

Secondary Schools Examinations Council Reports of the Investigators. Subject Reports. (First Examination.) London: HM Stationery Office 1919. (Second Examination.) London: HM Stationery Office 1921.

Circular 1153 Medical Inspection and treatment of pupils in Secondary and Continuation Schools (31 March 1920.) London: HM Stationery Office 1920.

Circular 1252 Report on Music Teaching in Secondary Schools in England 1922.

Education, England Regulations for Secondary Schools, England, 1922 Draft, dated 4 August 1922, of the Regulations for Secondary Schools, England, 1922 (excluding Wales and Monmouthshire), proposed to be made by the Board of Education under Section 44 of the Education Act, 1918 (8 and 9 Geo 5 c 39) (Education Act, 1918 Grant Regulations No 10, 1922) London: HM Stationery Office 1922.

BOARD OF EDUCATION - WELSH DEPARTMENT:

Education in Wales. The experiment in rural secondary education in Welshpool County School for Boys London: HM Stationery Office 1920.

Education, Wales (including Monmouthshire). Regulations for Secondary Schools, 1922 Draft, dated 1 September 1922, of the Regulations for Secondary Schools, Wales (including Monmouthshire), 1922, proposed to be made by the Board of Education under Section 44 of the Education Act, 1918 (8 and 9 Geo 5 c 39). London: HM Stationery Office 1922.

CENTRAL WELSH BOARD:

General report on Physical Training in Welsh Intermediate Schools, 1914.

Second General report on Physical Training in Welsh Intermediate Schools, 1915 and 1916 Cardiff: Roberts & Co 1916.

CHARITY COMMISSION Reports of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales from 1875-1900 (Sections relating to proceedings under the Endowed Schools Acts.) London: HM Stationery Office.

COMMITTEE ON MODERN LANGUAGES Report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister to inquire into the position of Modern Languages in the educational system of Great Britain London: HM. Stationery Office 1918 (Cd, 9036.) (See especially Sections 80 to 145.)

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL SCIENCE Report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister to inquire into the position of Natural Science in the educational system of Great Britain London: HM Stationery
Office 1918 (Cd 9011.) (See especially pp 8 to 29.)

COMMITTEE ON CLASSICS Report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister to inquire into the position of Classics in the Educational System of the United Kingdon London: HM Stationery Office 1921 (See especially Parts II, III and VII).

THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH IN ENGLAND Being the report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the President of the Board of Education to inquire into the position of English in the Educational system of England London: HM Stationery Office 1921 (See especially Chapter IV.)

Royal Commissions:

PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMISSION 1864. Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners (Lord Clarendon, Chairman) appointed to inquire into the Revenues and Management of certain Colleges and Schools, and the Studies pursued and Instruction given therein. 4 volumes. London: HM Stationery Office 1864.

SCHOOLS INQUIRY COMMISSION 1868-69. Report of the Commissioners (Lord Taunton, Chairman) appointed to inquire into the Education given in Schools not comprised within Her Majesty's two former
Commissions, bearing date respectively 30 June in the 22nd year, and 18 July in the 25th year of Her Majesty's reign. 21 volumes. London: HM Stationery Office 1868-9 (Especially Vol I, Ch VI, on Girls' Schools.)

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION COMMISSION 1875. Report of the Royal Commission (Duke of Devonshire, Chairman) on Scientific Instruction and Advancement of Science. 6th report: Teaching of Science in Public and Endowed Schools London: HM Stationery Office 1875. (C 1279.)

SECONDARY EDUCATION COMMISSION 1895. Report of the Commission (James Bryce, Chairman) appointed to consider what are the best methods of establishing a well-organised system of secondary education in England, taking into account existing deficiencies, and having regard to such local sources of revenue from endowment or otherwise, as are available or may be made available for this purpose. 9 volumes. London: HM Stationery Office 1895 (Especially Vol I, pp 75-78. Some considerations relating especially to the secondary education of girls.)

Select Committee:

ENDOWED SCHOOLS ACTS Report from the Select Committee on Endowed Schools Acts; together with the proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and Appendix London: Henry Hansard and Son 1886 (H.C 191.) (See Evidence of Mr Douglas C Richmond and Mr James Bryce.)

II: General

ADAMS (JOHN) The New Teaching London: Hodder and Stoughton 1918.

ADAMSON (JE) The Individual and the Environment London: Longmans, Green & Co 1921.

ARCHER (RL) Secondary Education in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: The University Press 1921.

ATKINS (HG) AND HL HUTTON The teaching of modern foreign languages in school and university London: E Arnold 1920. (Ch 1 The place of modern languages in the general timetable.)

BAIN (A WATSON) The Modern Teacher - Essays on educational aims and methods London: Methuen & Co 1921.

STREATHAM COUNTY SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Dalton Plan Assignments compiled by the staff of the School, 2 volumes London: G Bell & Sons 1922.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: Second report of the Committee upon the present methods of teaching chemistry London: British Association 1889 (Contains 'Suggestions for a Course of Elementary Instruction in Physical Science'. Drawn up by Professor HE Armstrong.) Report on Science teaching in Secondary Schools London: Offices of the Association 1917.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION Report of the Curricula Committee (reappointed 19 October 1907) to be presented to the general meeting of the Association on 11 January 1910 Classical Association 1910.

FINDLAY (JJ) Principles of Class Teaching London: Macmillan & Co 1902. (Ch XI The Curriculum of the Secondary School.)
The School An introduction to the study of education London: Williams and Norgate 1911 (pp 219-30 The Secondary School Curriculum.)

HODSON (F) Broad lines in Science teaching Edited by F Hodson PhD BSc With an introduction by ME Sadler London: Christophers 1909 (Ch 1 The place of science in the School curriculum by JH Badley.)

KENYON (Sir FG) Education, scientific and humane, A Report of the Proceedings of the Council for Humanistic Studies (edited by Sir Frederic Kenyon). London: John Murray 1917.
Education, Secondary and University A Report of Conferences between the Council for Humanistic Studies and the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies London: John Murray 1919.
LEATHES (Sir STANLEY) What is Education? London: G Bell and Sons 1913 (Chapters III, IV, and VI)

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL Report on the Teaching of French in the Secondary Schools of London (ordered by the Education Committee to be published 21 November 1917) London: PS King and Son
1917.

MACKAIL (JW) The Case for Latin in Secondary Schools London: John Murray 1922.

PARKHURST (HELEN) - Education on the Dalton Plan London: G.Bell and Sons 1922.

RICHMOND (KENNETH) The Curriculum London: Constable & Co 1919.

SADLER (Sir ME) Report on Secondary Education in Liverpool (City of Liverpool Education Committee.) London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1904
Report on Secondary and Higher Education in Hampshire (Administrative County of Southampton) Portsmouth: Holbrook and Son 1904.
Report on Secondary and Technical Education in Huddersfield (County Borough of Huddersfield Education Committee) London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1904.
Report on Secondary and Higher Education in Essex (Administrative County of Essex Education Committee) Chelmsford: JH Nicholas 1906.

SLEIGHT (WG) The Organisation and Curricula of Schools London: Edward Arnold 1920 (See Chapters VII and VIII)

TEACHERS' GUILD of GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Education Reform, being the report of the Education Reform Council London: PS King and Son 1917 (Curricula and Methods in Secondary Schools. Report of Committee D pp 67 to 96.)
This report should be compared with the report of the Scottish Education Reform Committee:
Reform in Scottish Education, being the Report of the Scottish Education Reform Committee Edinburgh: Scottish Education Reform Committee 1917.

WOODS (ALICE) Educational Experiments in England London: Methuen & Co 1920 (Ch IV Changes of Curriculum in Rugby, Marlborough, Christ's Hospital, Coeducational and other Schools.)

III: Boys' schools

ALLBUTT (Sir T CLIFFORD) Science in the School, being three letters to the Literary Supplement of 'The Times'. Cambridge: W Heffer and Sons 1917.

BENSON (AC) Cambridge Essays on Education edited by AC Benson with an introduction by the Right Hon Viscount Bryce OM Cambridge: University Press 1917.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: Report of the 73rd meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Southport in September 1903. London: J Murray 1904. (Contains papers on school curricula with special reference to commercial education by JL Paton and WC Fletcher.)
Report of the 77th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Leicester, 31 July - 7 August 1907. London: John Murray 1908. (Contains Report of the Committee appointed to consider and to advise as to the curricula of secondary schools.)

CHICHESTER (A) Educational reform and the curricula of secondary schools (Presidential address at the 22nd Annual Conference of Catholic Colleges upon Secondary Education, held at Wimbledon College, 4 June 1918.) London: Cole & Co 1918.

GOLLANCZ (VICTOR) and DAVID SOMERVELL The School and the World. (Ch X Curriculum.) London: Chapman and Hall 1919.

HEADMASTERS' CONFERENCE Report of the Special Meeting of members in favour of the recommendations of the Curriculum Committee held at the College of Preceptors, London WC on Thursday 10 March 1910 London: Waterlow and Sons 1910.

JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION AND THE ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL SCIENCE MASTERS The correlation of mathematical and science teaching Report of a Joint Committee
of the Mathematical Association and the Association of Public School Science Masters London: George Bell and Sons 1909.

LANKESTER (Sir RAY) Natural Science and the Classical System in Education Essays new and old edited for the Committee on the Neglect of Science London: W Heinemann 1918.

LIVINGSTONE (RW) A Defence of Classical Education London: Macmillan and Co 1916.

NORWOOD (CYRIL) and ARTHUR H HOPE The Higher Education of Boys in England London: John Murray 1909.

PUBLIC SCHOOL REFORM Public School Reform Report of Proceedings at the reception of a deputation by a Committee of the Head Masters of the Public Schools, held in London at the Great Central Hotel, on Thursday 6 July 1916. 1916.

RUGBY SCHOOL Notes on the teaching of English in the Lower Middles: November, 1913 Rugby: GE Over 1913.
Educational Course, February 1919 Rugby: The School 1919.

SOMERVELL (DB) The Future of Public School Education Oxford: University Press 1918.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM WITHIN A collection of essays on public school education written chiefly by schoolmasters London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1906.

IV: Girls' schools

ASSOCIATION OF HEAD MISTRESSES: Memorandum on the Board of Education's regulations for Secondary Schools 1904.
Proceedings of the Education Sub-Committee of the Executive Committee, 1918-19 Preston: Guardian Printing Works 1919. (Contains papers on the education of girls after 16 and on Aesthetics in Girls' Education.)
Report of the 48th Annual Conference held in London, Friday and Saturday 9 - 10 June 1922 (Contained in the 'Educational Times', July 1922.)
(The Balance of the Curriculum by Miss Gwatkin. The Classics as the foundation of the Humanities by Miss Brock. Aesthetics in the School Curriculum by Miss Ainslie. The Humanities; Divinity by Miss Haig Brown.)

BEALE (DOROTHEA), LUCY HM SOULSBY and JANE FRANCES DOVE Work and Play in Girls' Schools London: Longmans, Green & Co 1898.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Report of the 73rd Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Southport in September 1903 London: J Murray 1904. (Contains papers on Curricula of girls' schools by Miss SA Burstall and Professor HE Armstrong.)

BURSTALL (SARA A.) English High Schools for Girls Their apns, organisation and management London: Longmans, Green & Co 1907.

BURSTALL (SARA A.) and MA DOUGLAS Public Schools for Girls A series of papers on their history, aims and schemes of study by members of the Association of Head Mistresses London: Longmans, Green & Co 1911.

RAIKES (ELIZABETH) Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham London: Constable & Co 1908.

REDLEY (ANNIE E) Frances Mary Buss and her work for education. London 1895.

STUART (JANET ERSKINE) The Education of Catholic Girls London: Longmans, Green & Co 1911.

ZIMMERN (ALICE) The renaissance of Girls' Education in England A record of fifty years' progress London: AD Innes & Co 1898.

V: Physical training and hygiene

BURSTALL (SAHA A) Corpus Sanum (Chapter in 'English High Schools for Girls'. London: Longmans, Green & Co 1907.)
Physical Training (Chapter in 'Public Schools for Girls' edited by Sara A Burstall and MA Douglas London: Longmans, Green & Co 1911.)

CAMPBELL (GM) and MURIEL H SPALDING Physical Training (Chapter in 'The New Teaching' edited by John Adams London: Hodder and Stoughton 1918.)

COLLEGE of PRECEPTORS Report of a Joint Committee appointed by the College of Preceptors in October 1921 on the Physical Education of Girls, printed in the 'Educational Times' for September 1922.

DYMOND (JAG) Scouting and the Adolescent, with special reference to secondary schools Manchester: University Press 1920.

MALIM (FB) Athletics (Chapter in 'Cambridge Essays on Education' edited by AC Benson Cambridge: University Press 1917.)

NORWOOD (C) and AH HOPE The Higher Education of Boys in England (Chapters on Games; The Officers' Training Corps; Boys and their Health.) London: John Murray 1909.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM WITHIN The Public Schools from Within (Section IV Physical Culture.) London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1906.

SIMPSON (JH) The Public Schools and Athleticism London: 'Educational Times' 23 Southampton Street WC1 1922.

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