The Challenges Facing Comprehensive Schools
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 47 Number 2 & 3 (2005)
The Challenges Facing Comprehensive Schools
CLYDE CHITTY pages 207-211
DOI: 10.2304/forum.2005.47.2.11
Abstract
This article is an edited version of a talk written for delivery at a conference organised to celebrate 50 years of Kidbrooke Comprehensive School with the overall theme 'The Comprehensive Ideal: taking it beyond the individual school'. Having honoured the pioneering work at Kidbrooke, Clyde Chitty then takes a close look at three key issues: the 'collegiate' scheme proposed by Tim Brighouse, the long-running debate about catchment areas, and the centrality of curriculum reform. The article concludes by arguing that we cannot allow the government to redefine the comprehensive ideal simply as a means of legitimising the introduction of yet more diversity into an already complex and unworkable secondary system.
To cite this article
CLYDE CHITTY (2005) The Challenges Facing Comprehensive Schools, FORUM, 47(2 & 3 ), 207-211. https://doi.org/10.2304/forum.2005.47.2.11