<p>‘If you want to know about English teaching in the last fifty years this is the book to read. Simon Gibbons takes you from the landmark Dartmouth Conference, in 1966, in the States, to the present day in a comprehensive but ever readable way. Inevitably he highlights key moments, such as the strike against the SATs in the early nineties but he layers the fifty years of history with interviews with some of the key players and this makes it all the more interesting and offers a unique perspective.’ - <b>Dr Bethan Marshall</b>, Senior Lecturer in English in Education, King’s College London </p><p>'This is a bold, clear and comprehensive description of the principal schools of thought, professional developments, political struggles and key events in English teaching in England over 50 years. It will be a standard read for anyone interested in what English has been, is now and could be in the future.' - <b>John Richmond</b>, English advisor, part of the National Writing Project, Language in the National Curriculum Project and schools television.</p>

<p>‘If you want to know about English teaching in the last fifty years this is the book to read. Simon Gibbons takes you from the landmark Dartmouth Conference, in 1966, in the States, to the present day in a comprehensive but ever readable way. Inevitably he highlights key moments, such as the strike against the SATs in the early nineties but he layers the fifty years of history with interviews with some of the key players and this makes it all the more interesting and offers a unique perspective.’ - <b>Dr Bethan Marshall</b>, Senior Lecturer in English in Education, King’s College London </p><p>'This is a bold, clear and comprehensive description of the principal schools of thought, professional developments, political struggles and key events in English teaching in England over 50 years. It will be a standard read for anyone interested in what English has been, is now and could be in the future.' - <b>John Richmond</b>, English advisor, part of the National Writing Project, Language in the National Curriculum Project and schools television.</p><p>'This is an important book both educationally and politically. It gives a lucid and uncompromising account of the last 50 years in the history of English teaching which, in the best of all worlds, would be required reading for all new entrants to the profession.' - <strong>John Hickman</strong>, NATE Secondary Committee </p>