... that children's abilities should be tested at the age of eleven, and that they should then go on to the most appropriate type of secondary school. These schools would be either Grammar, Secondary, or Technical and would teach a different range of subjects. Since 1900, there have been a number of attempts to improve children's education the main acts were: 1902 Balfour's Act, 1906 Provisions of Meals Act, 1907 Health Inspections Act, 1918 Fisher's Act, raising school leaving age, 1926 The Hadow Report, 1938 The Spens Report. All of these attempted to solve different social and educational problems that were critical at the time, however, by the end of the 1930's, the schools generally were seen as not being good enough. Balfour's Act abolished the school boards, which had been created by Forster's Act of 1870. In its place, there were created a total of 315 Local Education Authorities (LEA's), which took over the running of ...

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