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- Title
Urban schooling and the National Curriculum.
- Authors
Halpin, David
- Abstract
The 1988 Education Reform Act requires every maintained school in England and Wales to provide for all pupils aged 5-16 years with a basic curriculum that includes a National Curriculum, comprising three core and seven foundation subjects, and provision for the teaching of religious education. While there are a number of good reasons to support the principle of a National Curriculum, the Thatcher government's version of what such a curriculum should look like is disassociated from any attempt to define systematically what kind of general, universal education is of most value in a rapidly changing world. As such, it is likely to fail the majority of children, and particularly those attending inner-city schools.
- Publication
Urban Review, 1990, Vol 22, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0042-0972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF01108248