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About this book
Originally published in 1974, Parent Power was a comprehensive handbook for parents on education and schooling at the time. Clearly and concisely, it outlined the rights of parents within the education system, and set out how they might be most effectively asserted to achieve results.
Parent Power was designed as a source of ready answers to the day-to-day problems that faced all parents of schoolchildren in the 1970s.
Has a parent any say in which school his child attends? What are 'discovery' methods? Should a child be taught to read before beginning school? Is any teacher permitted to inflict corporal punishment? What is 'family grouping'?
Parent Power was complied by a team of experienced teachers and educational journalists in easy-reference form, and its 140 alphabetical entries range from Day Nurseries and Playgroups to Evening Classes and Polytechnics, from Eleven-plus and C.S.E. to Examinations and Degrees, Intelligence Tests and Spelling. Where applicable, entries are supplemented with lists of useful addresses and sources of further information. Today it can be read in its historical context.
This book is a re-issue originally published in 1974. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Half Title
- Contributors
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- In Loco Parentis
- Absence
- Accidents
- Advice
- Aptitude
- Art Schools
- Assault
- Assembly
- Attendance
- Backwardness
- Ballet
- Boarding Schools
- Bullying
- Careers
- Catchment Area
- Certificate of Secondary Education
- Child Minders
- Choosing a School
- Church Schools
- Classes, Size of
- Coaching and Cramming
- Co-education
- Colleges of Education
- Colleges of Further Education
- Common Entrance
- Community Schools
- Complaints
- Comprehensive Schools
- Confidential Records
- Confiscation and Fines
- Corporal Punishment
- Correspondence Courses
- Counselling
- Day Nurseries
- Deaf Children
- Degrees
- Delinquency
- Department of Education and Science
- De-schooling
- Detention
- Direct Grant Schools
- Discipline
- Discovery Methods
- Drama
- Drugs
- Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme
- Dyslexia
- Education Acts
- Educational Priority Areas
- Educational Psychologists
- Educationally Subnormal
- Eleven-plus
- Encyclopedias
- Equipment
- Evening Classes
- Examinations
- Expulsion
- Extras
- Family Grouping
- Fees
- Free Schools
- Games
- General Certificate of Education
- Gifted Children
- Governors and Managers
- Grammar Schools
- Grants
- Half-time Schooling
- Head Teacher
- Higher Education
- Higher National Diploma
- HMC Schools
- Holidays
- Home Education
- Homework
- Immigrants
- Independent Schools
- Infant Schools
- Inspectors
- Integrated Day
- Intelligence Tests
- Junior Schools
- Leaving Age
- Libraries
- Local Education Authorities
- Maths
- Medical Inspection
- Middle Schools
- Milk and Meals
- Music
- Nunsery Schools and Classes
- Open Plan
- Open University
- Ordinary National Certificate
- Ordinary National Diploma
- Parents’ Rights
- Personal appearance
- Playgroups
- Politics
- Polytechnics
- Preparatory Schools
- Pressure Groups
- Primary Schools
- Progressive Schools
- Pupil Power
- Reading
- Recognition as Efficient
- Registered Schools
- Religious Education
- Reports
- Rules
- Scholastic Agencies
- School Councils
- School Fund
- School Journeys
- School Magazines
- Schools, Lists of
- Secondary Schools
- Secretary of State for Education and Science
- Sex Education
- Single-sex Schools
- Sixth-form Colleges
- Smoking, Drinking
- Special Schools
- Speech Day
- Spelling
- Starting School
- State Schools
- Streaming
- Subjects
- Teachers
- Team-teaching
- Textbooks
- Transport
- Truancy
- Uniforms
- Universities
- Welfare Benefits