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| Description | Comprises correspondence and papers regarding Simon's research into secondary education during the early-1950s. Includes:
Newspaper cuttings regarding financial cuts to education provision and the provision of education in grammar schools
Correspondence of Shena Simon (Brian's mother) and papers regarding direct grant schools
'Secondary education in Manchester' prospectus printed by the City of Manchester Education Committee, January 1949
Anglesey Education Committee development plan under Section 11 (1) of the Education Act 1944
Letter and paper from Staffordshire County Council Education Committee regarding their plans to open comprehensive schools (1953)
Articles on comprehensive schools
Reports on Holyhead School in Anglesey, which became a comprehensive in 1948/9; Mellow Lane Comprehensive School in Hayes; North Hammersmith Girls' School; West Norwood County Secondary School; Woolworth County Secondary School; Peckham Girls' Secondary School; Battersea County Secondary School; Joseph Leckie Comprehensive School, Walsall and Windemere Comprehensive School (all 1954)
Report of a visit to Anglesey, February 1954
Account written for a National Union of Teachers meeting in March 1954 on the experience of Mr Howarth, a Headmaster of a new comprehensive school in West Riding
Write-up of an interview with Mr Gray, Chief Inspector for Schools in Coventry with a report on Calundun Castle Boys' School in Coventry (1954)
Articles on the construction of Woodlands Secondary School, a comprehensive school for boys in Coventry
'Wastage in the grammar school - the poor child - an exploratory survey' examining statistically the academic progress of the 'poor boys' in a grammar school by W G Jackson, a teacher at a grammar school |