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Definition of Secondary modern school
1. Noun. A former British secondary school emphasizing practical rather than academic education.
Definition of Secondary modern school
1. Noun. (British somewhat dated) a type of school, for pupils who had failed the 11-plus examination, that concentrated on practical and vocational rather than academic subjects ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secondary Modern School
Literary usage of Secondary modern school
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alison and Peter Smithson: From the House of the Future to a House of Today by Dirk van den Heuvel, Peter Smithson, Max Risselada, Beatriz Colomina (2004)
"Apart from the Hunstanton secondary modern school,competition entries such as
the ones for Coventry Cathedral ..."
2. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"New schools The competition winning secondary modern school designed by
Alison (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (b. 1923) at Hunstanton, Norfolk (1950-54) was ..."
3. Notes on German Schools, with Special Relation to Curriculum and Methods of by William Henry Winch (1904)
"secondary modern school. Class I. Official age, sixteen and seventeen years.
Twenty boys were present. ..."
4. Notes on German Schools, with Special Relation to Curriculum and Methods of by William Henry Winch (1904)
"secondary modern school. Class I. Official age, sixteen and seventeen years.
Twenty boys were present. ..."
5. Sonnenschein's Cyclopædia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All by Alfred Ewen Fletcher (1889)
"... or who are to be engaged as engineers in constructive industry, the best
training is that which may be obtained in a good secondary modern school, ..."
6. Sonnenschein's Cyclopaedia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All by Alfred Ewen Fletcher (1892)
"... or who are to be engaged as engineers in constructive industry, the best
training is that which may lie obtained in a good secondary modern school, ..."
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