Forever Plowden: The Primary Schools

Abstract

The ILEA primary sector employs 8600 teachers for 239 640 children from every economic/ social/ethnic grouping in London. It is vast and the schools are numerous: 882, various: ranging from St Jude's to Evelyn Lowe, and subject to every kind of educational/social condition. Unlike the primary population in all but a few notably comprehensive authorities — Bristol, and Coventry to name two — they do not have the overall problem of selection. In theory at least they should all have the opportunity of avoiding the two ends of the educational hazard scale: the sub‐standard secondary modern or the small, inadequate grammar school. In fact they don't but the majority will continue in eminently, adequate and often long established comprehensives.

Citation

(1968), "Forever Plowden: The Primary Schools", Education + Training, Vol. 10 No. 6, pp. 234-235. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015974