Part 1 Ideals and history of comprehensive schooling: a seismic change - process and interpretation, Brian Simon; hopeful travel on a long road, Peter Cornwall. Part 2 Context: fragmentation into different types of school, David Halpin; privatization and selection, Geoffrey Walford. Part 3 Social and political philosophy: markets, equity and values in education, Stephen J. Ball; educating persons, Richard Pring. Part 4 The curriculum: what is worth learning?, Denis Lawton; a comprehensive curriculum 14-19, Sally Tomlinson. Part 5 Effective schools and effective teachers: effective comprehensve education, Caroline Benn; teachers for the comprehensive ideal, Ted Wragg. Part 6 Effective learning: what comprehensive schools do better, Bernard Clarke; information technology and the comprehensive ideal, John Abbot. Part 7 The organization of comprehensive education in the future: a local democratic framework, Tim Brighouse; the comprehensive school within the learning society, Stewart Ransom.