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Hayton, Carol – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
The author is a long-time advocate inside the Labour Party for ending selective education and the 11-plus. She outlines how Labour Party frontbenchers routinely ignore or deflect calls from Party members to stand up for comprehensive education in both word and deed. As UKIP, whose policy is to extend selective education more widely, rises in the…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Klingberg, Gote – 1970
The LIGRU project is concerned with the objectives, methods, and evaluation of literature instruction in the Swedish comprehensive school. This document presents a taxonomy of educational objectives and evaluation instruments. The resulting scheme, derived from a review of other classification schema, has two dimensions -- goal area and aspect.…
Descriptors: Classification, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
Clark, Burton R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
The similarities among comprehensive high schools in the United States promote equity and social integration rather than educational excellence. Increased specialization would encourage competition for students and provide schools with a sense of mission, two factors critical to developing strong faculties committed to improving education. (PGD)
Descriptors: Competition, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change, Educational Improvement

Wallin, Erik – European Journal of Education, 1991
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Swedish comprehensive education, it is concluded that the system has attained some of its social and academic aims fully and approached attainment of others. Areas for further improvement include increased local governance, more clearly articulated goals, and curriculum development. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Ojansuu, Raila, Ed. – 1971
This publication contains two chapters of the final report of the Curriculum Committee published in 1970 as an evaluation of goals and curriculum of the comprehensive school in Finland. The comprehensive school aims at providing the children with material and stimuli that favor a positive personality development. The major domains of an integrated…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Schlomerkemper, Jorg – Western European Education, 1990
Describes the integrated comprehensive school (ICS) in Germany, where, as of 1988, 90 percent of all students attended traditional schools. Traces the history of comprehensive schools in Germany and examines their philosophy and objectives. States comprehensive schooling cannot create equal social entitlements but can encourage all students to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Democratic Values, Educational Change
Holsinger, Donald B. – 2000
This book, written from the policymaker's perspective, examines key issues facing education ministries trying to find the optimal size of and curricular emphasis for their secondary-education systems. It sets out the principle choices to be made and the dilemmas encountered regarding the scale and thrust of the sector. The work first looks at key…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comprehensive Programs, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1987
This volume consists of reports on the status and function of lower secondary comprehensive school systems in four countries with contrasting cultures and educational traditions: Denmark, France, the United Kingdom as represented by Scotland, and the United States as represented by Maryland and Minnesota. The volume begins with an analysis by…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adolescents, Class Size, Comparative Analysis