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Parry, David Jeremy – History of Education, 2020
This article examines the career of the educationalist, Conservative politician and published writer on education and politics, Rhodes Boyson (1925-2012). As an educationalist, Boyson established Highbury Grove Boys' Comprehensive School in Islington, North London: An inner-city school which was antithetical to the wave of progressivism in the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Politics of Education, Urban Schools, Educational Philosophy
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McCulloch, Gary – History of Education, 2016
Fifty years after the production of Circular 10/65, which confirmed comprehensive education as the national policy for secondary education in England and Wales, it is possible to trace the idea of comprehensive education from the 1940s to the 1960s, to understand the position of the Labour Party in its development, and to assess the nature of the…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational History