01552 a2200277 4500 1138008508 20250317100353.0 250312042014GB eng 9781138008502 Taylor & Francis GBP 52.99 BB 01 eng JNF thema JNF bic EDU000000 bisac EDU034000 bisac EDU040000 bisac REF000000 bisac 373.1102 bisac David Hargreaves Challenge For the Comprehensive School Culture, Curriculum and Community 1 Oxford Routledge 20140704 256 p By 1982 the ambitious claims made for newly established comprehensive schools were being put to the test. How effectively does the comprehensive meet the needs of all young people? Do urban, working-class students enjoy more success than in the secondary modern schools? Are they more engaged in their learning with higher self-esteem? This volume discusses these questions and examines issues of social mobility and cohesion, curriculum, the balance between academic and vocational education, the place of exams in the educational system and the influence of independent schools. The author asks whether a more decentralised system of self-governing schools improve the education service – a timely question which along with the other issues examined is as relevant and challenging today as when the book was originally published in 1982. 386 386