www.dg.dial.pipex.com1705 readers since 1 Apr 2007 

Education in England: a brief history

Introduction
1 600-1800 Beginnings
2 1800-1900 Towards a state system of education
3 1900-1944 The state system takes shape
4 1945-1978 Rise and fall of a public service
5 1979-1997 Thatcherism: the marketisation of education
6 1997-2007 The Blair decade: selection, privatisation and faith
Updates
Bibliography
Timeline
Glossary

Education in England: a brief history

Bibliography

Beckett F (2004) 'Business class' The Guardian 9 July

Benn C and Chitty C (1996) Thirty Years On - is comprehensive education alive and well or struggling to survive? London: David Fulton Publishers

Blyth W (1965) English Primary Education Vol. 2 London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

Board of Education (1905) Reports on Children under Five Years of Age in Public Elementary Schools, by Women Inspectors London: HMSO Cd 2726

Burt C (1933) How the Mind Works London: Allen and Unwin

Chan, S. and East, P. (2002) (8th Edition August 2002) Primary and Secondary Education in England and Wales: from 1944 to the present day

Chitty C (1998) 'Selection fever' The Guardian 13 October

Chitty C (2004) Education Policy in Britain Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Chitty C and Dunford J (eds) (1999) State Schools: New Labour and the Conservative Legacy London: Woburn Press

Clarke F (1940) Education and Social Change: an English interpretation London: Sheldon Press

DES (1977) Education in Schools: A Consultative Document London: HMSO

DfE (1992) Choice and Diversity: A New Framework for Schools London: HMSO

DfEE (1997) Excellence in Schools Cmnd 3681 London: HMSO

Eliot TS (1949) Notes Towards the Definition of Culture London: Faber & Faber

Fisher HAL (1936) A History of Europe London: Edward Arnold and Co.

Galton M, Simon B and Croll P (1980) Inside the Primary Classroom (The ORACLE Report) London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

Gardner R, Cairns J and Lawton D (eds) (2005) Faith Schools: consensus or conflict? Abingdon: RoutledgeFalmer

Gates B (2005) Faith schools and colleges of education since 1800 in Gardner R, Cairns J and Lawton D (eds) (2005) Faith Schools: consensus or conflict? Abingdon: RoutledgeFalmer

Giles GCT (1946) The New School Tie London: Pilot Press

Glennerster H (1998) Education: reaping the harvest? In Glennerster H and Hills J (eds) The State of Welfare: the economics of social spending Oxford: Oxford University Press

Green A (1990) Education and State Formation: the rise of education systems in England, France and the USALondon: Macmillan

Hargreaves A and Tickle L (1980) Middle Schools - Origins, Ideology and Practice London: Harper and Row

Hodgson A and Spours K (2005) 'Divided we fail' The Guardian 1 March

Jenkins S (2006) 'Blair and Adonis are taking our schools back to the 30s' The Guardian 25 January

Jones K (2003) Education in Britain: 1944 to the present Cambridge: Polity Press

Kogan M (1971) The Politics of Education Harmondsworth: Penguin Books

Labour Party (1995) Diversity and Excellence: a new partnership for schools London: Labour Party

Lester Smith WO (1966) Education (revised edition) Harmondsworth: Penguin Books

Mackinnon D and Statham J (1999) Education in the UK: Facts and Figures London: Hodder and Stoughton/Open University

Marquand D (1988) The Unprincipled Society: New demands and Old Politics London: Jonathan Cape.

McKenzie RF (1970) State School Harmondsworth: Penguin

Millar F (2003) 'Admissions impossible' The Guardian 11 November

Morris E (2002) 'Why comprehensives must change' The Observer 23 June

National Assembly for Wales (2001) The Learning Country www.wales.gov.uk

National Commission on Education (1993) Learning to Succeed, Report of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation London: Heinemann

Newsam P (1998) 'How can we know the dancer from the dance?' Forum Vol. 40 No. 2 Abingdon: Symposium Journals

Norwood Report (1943) Curriculum and Examinations in Secondary Schools London: HMSO

Nunes A (undated) From Plato to Plowden

Oppenheim C and Lister R (1997) The growth of poverty and inequality in Walker A and Walker C (eds) (1997) Britain divided: the growth of social exclusion in the 1980s and 1990s London: Child Poverty Action Group

Patten J (1992) 'Who's afraid of the 'S' word?' New Statesman and Society 17 July, 20-1

Plaskow M (1990) 'It was the best of times' Education 3 August.

Plowden Report (1967) Children and their Primary Schools, Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education (England) London: HMSO

Pullman P (2003) 'All around you is silence' The Guardian 5 June

Rogers R (1980) Crowther to Warnock: how fourteen reports tried to change children's lives London: Heinemann

Sexton S (1977) Evolution by choice, in Cox CB and Boyson R Black Paper 1977 London: Temple Smith

Shipman M (1984) Education as a Public Service London: Harper and Row

Swann Report (1985) Education for All Cmnd 9453 London: HMSO

Timmins N (1996) The Five Giants: a biography of the welfare state London: Fontana Press

Warnock Report (1978) Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People Cmnd. 7212. London: HMSO

Wilkinson E (1947) Foreword The New Secondary Education London: HMSO.

Williams R (1965) The Long Revolution Harmondsworth: Penguin Books

Wintour P (2005) 'Blair's public service crusade' The Guardian 25 October

Young GM and Hancock WD (eds) (1956) English Historical Documents XII (1), 1833-1874 New York: Oxford University Press

Updates | Timeline