The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentiet

In this provocative study the author challenges many contemporary assumptions about the modern family, the circumstances of home life which lead to academic suc

The subject matter of this book – what happens in schools, the effects of curriculum change, the reasons why some children are successful and others are not �

Annotation Originally published in 1968.

When first published this book had a significant influence on the campaign for comprehensive schools and it spoke to generations of working-class students who w