‘Makes an original contribution to educational understanding, and presents its evidence with human generosity and great complexity of detail.’ Observer‘A brilliant study of the effect of a grammar-school education on working-class children and their families.’ New Statesman‘Deserves the most careful study by politicians, administrators, teachers and parents’ Sunday Times

• List of Tables and Figures. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Part 1. 1. Introduction. 2. Ten Middle-Class Children. 3. Working-Class Families. 4. Eighty-Eight Working Class Children. 5. Men and Women. Part 2. 6. Some Notes on State Education and Working-Class Life. Appendices. 1. Further Research. 2. Further Reading. Index.

‘Makes an original contribution to educational understanding, and presents its evidence with human generosity and great complexity of detail.’ Observer‘A brilliant study of the effect of a grammar-school education on working-class children and their families.’ New Statesman‘Deserves the most careful study by politicians, administrators, teachers and parents’ Sunday Times

• List of Tables and Figures. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Part 1. 1. Introduction. 2. Ten Middle-Class Children. 3. Working-Class Families. 4. Eighty-Eight Working Class Children. 5. Men and Women. Part 2. 6. Some Notes on State Education and Working-Class Life. Appendices. 1. Further Research. 2. Further Reading. Index.

‘Makes an original contribution to educational understanding, and presents its evidence with human generosity and great complexity of detail.’ Observer‘A brilliant study of the effect of a grammar-school education on working-class children and their families.’ New Statesman‘Deserves the most careful study by politicians, administrators, teachers and parents’ Sunday Times

• List of Tables and Figures. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Part 1. 1. Introduction. 2. Ten Middle-Class Children. 3. Working-Class Families. 4. Eighty-Eight Working Class Children. 5. Men and Women. Part 2. 6. Some Notes on State Education and Working-Class Life. Appendices. 1. Further Research. 2. Further Reading. Index.