The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School - Hardcover

David Turner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300189923 ISBN 13: 9780300189926

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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About this title

Review:

'David Turner's brisk and balanced history of public schools is about change, controversies and paradoxes.'--Lawrence James, the Times.
-- (03/21/2015)

'Turner strikes a good balance between the fun of school life in these places, and (at their best) their high academic standards.'--A.N. Wilson, the Sunday Times.
-- (03/22/2015)

..". well-researched [and] pleasingly written ... The long-run story that Turner tells is a fascinating one and, I suspect, surprisingly little known."--David Kynaston, The Observer.-- (03/29/2015)

About the Author:

David Turner is the former education correspondent for the Financial Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300189923
• ISBN 13: 9780300189926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368