Starting School ; Chris Upton Looks at a Georgian Literacydrive Which Broughtfree Schooling Tothe Poorer Classes of Birmingham
Birmingham Post › July 01, 2010
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When Forster's Education Act made elementary education compulsory back in 1870 the Birmingham Education League fought tooth-and-nail to make it free. They failed, and for the first 30 years children paid their weekly "school pence", which were just as obligatory as their attendance.
The stance of the Education League, which claimed Joseph Chamberlain and George Dixon among its members, no doubt stemmed from the liberalism of its politics in those radical days. But it probably also originated in the sheer quantity of free schooling which the town was providing even by the middle of the 19th century.See the full content of this document
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Starting School ; Chris Upton Looks at a Georgian Literacydrive Which Broughtfree Schooling Tothe Poorer Classes of Birmingham
In many ways the decade between 1810 and 1820 was just as revolutionary, educationally speaking, as the 1870s. The major difference was that the word "permissive" was replaced by "compulsory".
By 1815 there were in Birmingham a National School, two Briti...See the full content of this document
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