**The comprehensive school**: Nearly everyone interested in education today wants to abolish the 11+ examination, but few people are clear what the alternatives are.
The best alternative is some form of comprehensive school as it exists i England and Wales today. Dr Pedley first describes just what the 11+ is and does. Then, after dispelling the bogey that comprehensive school need at least weo thousand poupils in order to function, he goes on to demostrate, by statistics, that those in existnce are already rivalling the tripartite system in academic achievements. Finally, and most important, he argues that a good comprehensive school can both focus and mirror a community as can no other school. Of all our educational establishments the comprehensive school is the least understood. This book, which contains a glossary of educational terms and a list of comprehensive schools, offers to interested readers - especially parents - all the facts.
