Word: manye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The exam is mandatory for every child just past the age of eleven, except for those headed for the public schools such as Eton or Harrow. The exam (English composition, arithmetic, an IQ test) ruthlessly splits youngsters into three groups. The top 20% go to respected pre-university grammar schools...
Rather than see their children marked as second-rate material, many middle-class parents rush to the prestigious public schools (costing up to one-third of their incomes). In turn, standards in the secondary modern schools are falling, which makes it even tougher on the children of less prosperous parents...
U.S. Pattern. With discontent so widespread, many a community has set up comprehensive schools that lump grammar, technical and secondary modern schools under one roof with as many as 1,000 students. The new schools (about 90 so far) remodeled on a familiar U.S. pattern: the big, inclusive high school...
Britain's famed public schools are flourishing as before. The class-conscious Englishman still feels compelled to give his children a distinctive U (upper-class) accent, recoils in horror from the non-U patois prevalent in many state schools. Yet public schools are also so costly ($1,200 yearly...
Realized Abilities. Today, Stevens' Daystar Productions-which he shares with a shrewd former talent agent named Stanley Colbert-has a contract to make three movies for 20th Century-Fox. (For each of these movies, besides Daystar's cut of the profits, Stevens can get $50,000 as writer...