This book analyses the parallel, different and related aspects of
the discovery of poverty in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the
role of education in the American 'war on poverty' from 1964, and
in Britain from the appointment of the Plowden committee on primary
schools. It examines changes in policy emphases, the relationship
between research and policy, and the transatlantic interactions and
silences involved. Based on archival and interview material the
book offers new insights into the role of the Plowden committee in
shifting attention from social class to poverty, and it discusses
in both the American and British contexts the concepts and theories
involved in the changing fortunes of the educational war on poverty
in the 1960s and 1970s. An Educational War on Poverty represents a
major contribution to the study of the recent social and
educational history of Britain and the United States, and the range
and depth of research, will make it an essential reference source
for scholars and policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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