[HPforGrownups] Re: The timeline on the DVD *confirms* canon;

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 55946

On 23 Apr 2003 at 6:15, hp_lexicon wrote:

> Some of you might be interested in an essay which was just added to 
> the Lexicon by Diana Summers entitled "British Schooling in the 
> 1970s" in which the author briefly discusses this point. It's 
> located here:
> 
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/essay-british-schooling.html
> 
> No, this won't convince anyone of anything, but it does speak the 
> to "no exceptions" claims which have been brought up. 

Is there actually any real interest in this?

Because early next week I should be able to find and provide citations on early entry 
and acceleration in British primary schools during the 1980s - I have to do some 
research and I'll be accessing a whole bunch of journals on the education of gifted kids 
in the UK including (probably) a bunch from the 1980s. If this is a real issue of dispute, it 
probably won't be very hard for me to find non-anecdotal published evidence that a child 
in the UK in the 1980s could be ahead of the normal age for their years. I may even be 
able to find statistics that indicates how common it was (not sure on that - I have seen 
an article like that, but I can't remember it's precise details - it may have been talking 
about one region).

I'm happy to do it, if there's any interest - I need to be going through the journals anyway 
and I doubt this will add much to the time I will be spending. But I want to see if people 
seriously want this stuff.

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
Shaun Hately |webpage: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/thelab.html
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