The Grammar School Question: A Review of Research on Comprehensive and Selective Education

by David Crook, Geoff Whitty, Sally Power

The Grammar School Question provides an even-handed analysis of the research evidence on comprehensive and selective education against the background of heated debate on the future of grammar schools. The book concludes with a discussion of some of the consequences of abolishing or retaining selective education.

72 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1999

About the author

David Crook was a British-born Communist ideologue, activist and spy, long resident in China. A committed Marxist from 1931, he joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), then was recruited by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, and was sent to China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). There he met and married his wife, Isabel, a teacher and social activist. The couple stayed in China after 1949 to teach English