The Reinvention of Scottish Liberal Education: Secondary Schooling, 1900--39.
Scottish secondary education was radically extended in size and social reach in the first four decades of the twentieth century, bringing significant new opportunities in secondary schooling to girls, to children of the lower-middle and upper-working classes, and to Catholics. Most of the new second...
| Published in: | Scottish Historical Review Vol. 90; no. 1; pp. 96 - 131 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Apr2011
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