The aim of this specinl issue of The week is to srm our rerular readers (and all others interested) with a whole battery of areuments against the opponents of the rapid introduction of comprehensive cducntion. Ye have done this in the context of havin: a Labour Governnent which is firmly committed to comprehensive education. However, the matter is by no means straishtforward, and because many of those strurvzling for compr hensive education have found their main opposition coming from encrusted (and very often old-fashioned) Labour L.E.A.ss we have devoted a considerable amount of space to this problem. To this end we have considered particuler cases and reproduced articles by leading advocates of comprehensive education in towns where this problem exists.
we have given considerable space to Liverpool because we believe that many active socialists in other Labour-controlled tems can draw on Liverpool's experience. On a more theore tical level, we believe that the articles on the effects of streaminz will give an underpinning to the arguments of those who believe that comprehensive educetion will scarcely mark an advance forward at all unless streaming xzoes. Likewise with the arguments on the complete abolition of selection.
Ye would stress that this is not merely a pamphlet for teachers, Lvery active member of the labour movement must know how to apply his socialist ideas to practical problems. ‘e trust that this little effort - a combination of vory practical case histories and soci-list theory - will prove a weapon end a contribution to discussion. Published by The Week, 54, Park Rd., Nottm. Subs rates on avplication,
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