Publisher's Synopsis
A case-study of Norwood Girls School, Brixton, which had a reputation in the sixties as a "tough" comprehensive. With immigration of ethnic minorities into the area at its peak, these were unsettled and disturbing times. Local problems of housing, poverty and deprivation of all kinds combined to produce a high level of disorder and disturbed behaviour amongst its pupils.;This account records the twenty-year initiative to achieve change and improvement in the school. The text examines current education issues such as special needs, management, multicultural education, teacher education, community health management and urban poverty and unrest, in the light of Norwood's experience.;Written by the school's successive headteachers and one deputy, their account is complemented by the inclusion of the ILEA Research and Statistics Division 1967/8 report on pupils of the school.
