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Direct linkMitchell, Peter – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
It is 25 years since the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) was abolished and management of education in central London transferred to 13 London boroughs. The author reflects on the experience of being an ex-ILEA head teacher, and of managing one of the new local education authorities in the immediate post-ILEA period. He begins by commenting…
Descriptors: Reflection, School District Reorganization, Local Government, Organizational Change
Canadian Vocational Journal, 1983
Explains a comprehensive curriculum as a means to introduce youngsters to a wide extent of knowledge and experience. Discusses problems regarding vocational education: (1) it must become integrated with rest of curriculum; (2) it must avoid being only a means of tracking students, and (3) it must direct students' attention to whole question of…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational History, Holistic Approach
Hampel, Robert L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
Conant's "The American High School Today" (1959) conveyed his confidence in consolidation of smaller schools into comprehensive high schools. The book sparked criticism. Conant's personal papers reveal that his breezy optimism hid doubts, frustrations, and uncertainties. The contradiction in his views foreshadows the turbulent 1960s. (PB)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Development, Educational History
Peer reviewedWielemans, Willy – European Journal of Education, 1991
After 20 years of experience, comprehensive education in Belgium is characterized by many compromises. Pedagogically, positive results have been achieved. Curricular and structural reforms have been largely successful. However, too much is being expected of it as a lever for social change, and the system may fail as a result. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Role, Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Development
Download full textHyslop-Margison, Emery J. – 1999
Early in the 20th century, vocational education was a concern of educators in the United States as schools struggled to meet labor force needs during the shift from an agrarian to an industrial economic base. A 1914 Congress-authorized commission studied whether federal aid to vocational education was warranted. Charles Prosser, a student of…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History
Sanders, Elena Y. – 1995
After 40 years of efforts, the first bill authorizing the establishment of community colleges in the state of Ohio was finally adopted in June 1961. Before and after the passage of the act, attempts had been made to create a comprehensive community college system in Ohio, but all of them failed. A 1970 study by the Ohio Board of Regents (OBOR),…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, College Role, Community Colleges, Comprehensive Programs
