01781 a2200301 4500 1138868159 20250317100415.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138868151 Taylor & Francis GBP 46.99 BB 01 eng NHTB thema NHD thema 3M bisac HBTB bic HBJD1 bic 3J bisac HIS000000 bisac 373.4209034 bisac Prof John Roach Secondary Education in England 1870-1902 Public Activity and Private Enterprise 1 Oxford Routledge 20150427 296 p In this comprehensive and extensively researched history, John Roach argues for a reassessment of the relative importance of State regulation and private provision. Although the public schools enjoyed their greatest prestige during this period, in terms of educational reform and progress their importance has been exaggerated. The role of the public school, he suggests, was social rather than academic, and as such their power and influence is to be interpreted principally in relation to the growth of new social elites, the concept of public service and the needs of the empire for a bureaucratic ruling class. Only in the modern progressive movement, launched by Cecil Reddie, and the private provision for young women, was lasting progress made. Even before the 1902 Education Act however the State had spent much time and effort regulating and reforming the old educational endowments, and it is in these initiatives that the foundations for the public provision of secondary educational reform are to be found. John Roach A01 2834 2834