Cox, Charles Brian & Anthony Edward Dyson (editors) - Black Paper 1: Fight for Education. Black Paper 2: Crisis in Education. Black Paper 3: Goodby Mr. Short.

Critical Quarterly Society, London, 1969. First Editions, Softcover. Very Good Condition. Contributors include: Kingsley Amis, Angus Maude, Bryan Wilson, John Sparrow, Max Beloff, Robert Conquest, Cyril Burt, Derek Colville, Richard Lynn. The Black Papers were a series of articles on British education, published from 1969 to 1977 in the Critical Quarterly; their name intended as a contrast to government White Papers. The Black Papers were not opposed in principle to progressive education, only to its excesses, which were rampant in British schools in the 1960s and 1970s. They criticised selection for grammar schools at the age of eleven and advocated it should be delayed until children were at least thirteen years of age. They criticised the student sit-ins which were damaging the reputation of British universities..The editors became leaders in a national campaign; today the Black Paper proposals for schools by and large are accepted by both the Conservative and Labour Parties in Britain. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 80 & 160 & 126 pages. 3-volume set (complete). no Dust Jackets as published.. Black titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; Progressive Education; Politics & Government; Sociology & Culture; Britain/UK; Education. Inventory No: 4795.

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