2 The 'Butler Act', 1944
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- Education Act, 1944
- Grammar schools (academic)
- Deepened class divisions by sending the majority of working-class children to secondary moderns
- Intended to make academic curricula avaliable to all able students
- Greater opportunity for working-class children
- 11+ was pass/fail test
- Impossible to tell intellectual capacity at 11
- Secondary modern schools (functional)
- Mostly lower middle-class/ working-class children
- Fewer resources, less qualified teachers
- some offered innovative curricula
- Close ties to collages to transfer to vocational courses/placements
- 75% of students (post-war)
- Technical schools (technical)
- Middle-class education for science/engineering - technocratic class
- Education for high technology/ nuclear power
- Few built - expensive (3% of students)
- Technical section of the 11+ eventually left out
- Extended working-class access to education - secondary schools were free/ funded by tax - state responsibility
- Extended leaving age to 15
- Free/compulsory education, for girls too
- Contributed to 1950s/60s social change - more were educated
- Reflected/perperpetuated class structure
- c. Richard Butler (education minister), 'tripartite' system
- Grammar schools (academic)
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