Abstract

It has become something of a habit among educational historians to vie with each other in the use of hyperbole when describing the Education Act of 1902 which swept away the School Boards and placed the local control of English education under the aegis of the County Councils. Along with the legislation of 1870 and 1944 it has been depicted as forming a sort of educational trinity, to which the homage of all who have the best interests of education at heart should be periodically rendered. – Introductory paragraph.

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