Education and the Working Class
Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden studied 88 working-class children in Huddersfield who passed through grammar school in the 1950s. Their interviews show how selective schooling lifted a few while straining their ties to family and class, and how much talent the system let slip.
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Alison Wolf
This is one of the few books about education that you can recommend to the general reader – it is based on in-depth interviews with 88 working-class families after their children had been through the grammar school system after the Second World War, when free secondary education was really opened up. Again, I think what it captures is a combination of the eternal and an England that has completely vanished.
Interview · February 2010
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