Primary education Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Timeline of 20th century English education==== * 1912 β [[Maria Montessori]] publishes The Montessori Method. * 1915 β John and Evelyn Dewey publish [[School of Tomorrow]]. * 1918 β [[Education Act 1918]] ends all fees for elementary education and raises the school leaving age from 12 to 14. * 1919 β The [[Burnham Committee]] introduces national pay scales for elementary teachers. * * 1923 β [[Jean Piaget|Piaget]] publishes The Language and Thought of the Child. :: [[A S Neill]] opens [[Summerhill School|Summerhill]]. * 1944 β Elementary education split by age into primary and secondary. A tripartite system with an [[eleven plus]] exam. * 1955 β The last gas lamps are removed from London schools. * 1957 β Britain's first school TV was broadcast by Associated Rediffusion in May, * 1958 β BBC Schools TV broadcasting : A S Neill's ''Summerhill'' published. * 1963 β London and Manchester end 11-plus. * 1967 β The [[Plowden Report]] advocates the expansion of nursery schooling. * 1968 β The [[Newsom Report]] on public schools calls for integration with state schools.<ref name="TES">{{cite web |title=Timeline: A history of education |url=https://www.tes.com/news/timeline-history-education |website=Tes |access-date=8 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page