Chapter 1
The Victorian spark and the Forster Act
Chapter 2
The wartime blueprint and the Butler Act
Chapter 3
The modern classroom landscape
Chapter 4
Education, capitalism, and the social contract
YOUR GOAL
Master of Classrooms and capital in the British school experiment
Ch 2 · The wartime blueprint and the Butler Act
schott School Leaving Age
We raised the school age and we needed space, So HORSA huts popped up in every place.
Fun Fact
Free school milk: The 1944 Act gave all pupils free daily milk, a popular health benefit that lasted until political cuts phased it out in 1971.
Glossary
secondary education (noun)
The stage of schooling that follows primary school and precedes higher education or employment. The 1944 Education Act made this level of schooling free for all pupils in the United Kingdom.
The stage of schooling that follows primary school and precedes higher education or employment. The 1944 Education Act made this level of schooling free for all pupils in the United Kingdom.
Quiz
Under the 1944 Act, what health-related services were local education authorities required to provide?
Quiz
Which future British Prime Minister famously ended free school milk for primary school children over seven in 1971?
Quiz
Who was the British Education Minister who championed the transformative Education Act of 1944?
Quiz
Which of the three planned school types in the post-war tripartite system was rarely built due to funding shortages?
Quiz
What major change did the 1944 Butler Act make to the cost of state secondary education?
Quiz
In which post-war year did the UK officially implement raising the school leaving age to 15?