The debate over secondary education

Socially diverse aspect of social change

Eleven plus examination decided whether a child's future would be in grammar schools or a modern secondary school

30% in provate and grammar school and 60% in modern secondary schools

1944 Education act aimed to produce a tripartite system giving equal status tp grammar,secondary moderns and technicals (never achieved this)

Few technicals and seconday moderns were regarded as recepticals for those who failed it

Eleven plus was a highly…