community colleges and compensatory education

There were two war waves of community schooling in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century.

The first was an expansion in rural and suburban areas - the best known of which being Stewart Mason's (1949) work in Leicestershire (see community colleges).

Then, in the aftermath of the Plowden Report (1967), their appearance in inner-city localities (see community education as compensation). Here the work of Eric Midwinter (1972; 1973) was especially influential. (See also Halsey 1972)..

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