Definition of Comprehensive school

1. Noun. A large British or Canadian secondary school for children of all abilities.


Definition of Comprehensive school

1. Noun. (British) a normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities; replaced the secondary modern schools and grammar schools ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Comprehensive school

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Montana Historical Society, Henry E. Legler Regional Branch, Library, Chicago Public Library, Chicago West Side Historical Society (1920)
"Some say that in a large city the adoption of the comprehensive school necessitates duplication in every high school of every curriculum offered in any high ..."

2. Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education by Charles Henry Ham (1900)
"... in New York City—the most comprehensive school in the World.—The Chicago Manual Training School the first Independent Institution of the Kind—its ..."

3. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"These interventions may be enhanced if they are embedded in a more comprehensive school health education program (Allensworth and Kolbe 1987; Walter, ..."

4. Korea by Oecd (1998)
"The PCER proposes a new comprehensive school Record System based on a criterion-referenced ... The comprehensive school Records System reflects stu- ..."

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