Download or read book Going Comprehensive in England and Wales written by David Crook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition of British secondary schools from predominantly selective to predominantly comprehensive was meant to transform a highly stratified system into a more equal one. However, this study shows that the new system was in fact highly diverse and retained features of the selective system.