About the Book

Comprehensive Study of Education

Many educational experts were opposed to the idea of selection at eleven and argued that secondary modern schools were providing a second-class education. Some Local Education Authorities experimented with the idea of creating comprehensive schools designed to provide an education for children of all abilities. A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. The arguments for a comprehensive system of schooling should not be lost on higher education; those arguments are now exerting an influence on the education and training system after 18 - the openness to a much wider range of talent, aspiration and approaches to learning. Meaningful educational opportunity includes high quality teaching; reasonable class sizes; a full and rigorous curriculum; up-to-date libraries, laboratories, and technology; and safe school buildings – resources not reliably available in schools that serve students from low-income and minority families. In addition, it includes complementary, “out-of-school” supports and services that address the full range of physical, social, economic, political, and psychological factors that indisputably affect children's readiness and ability to succeed in school. This textbook can also be useful to the teachers and research scholars as a reference material. CONTENTS : (1)Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) (2)Characteristics of Teachers in CSRD Schools (3)Development on Comprehensive School Reform (4)Comprehensive Health Education (5)Comprehensive School Education (6)Comprehensive Reform in General Education (7)Comprehensive Sex Education (8) Comprehensive Study of Higher Education (9) Comprehensive Curriculum in Higher Education.