education act 1944?

Question

what did this act cover in caring for special needs children and how their educated

Answer 1

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ED1944.htm This was a British Education Act originally establishing a school system that was to answer to all children and their needs on different levels. In America in 1944 Congress passed the GI Bill which allowed people who never had hopes or thoughts about attending college the opportunity to, colleges had to adapt to the changing face of the new students - returning soldiers who mostly came from middle to lower middle class backgrounds.

Answer 2

1944 Education Act was an attempt to create the structure for the post-war British education system. The act raised the school-leaving age to 15 and provided universal free schooling in three different types of schools; grammar, secondary modern and technical. Butler hoped that these schools would cater for the different academic levels and other aptitudes of children. Entry to these schools was based on the 11+ examination.

After World War II the mood of the country was ripe for reform and there was movement
for more social equality and so ‘Education for All on an Equal basis’ was the expectancy.
At this time in history there was a strong belief in the Intelligence Test as the indicator
for selecting the appropriate education provision. It was also believed that a child’s
potential could be ascertained around the age of 11 and the 11+ (or transfer test as it is
now) was introduced. As a result the tripartite system of post-primary education was
born; grammar schools for the most intelligent, secondary technical schools for the rest.
There was pretence of claiming that these schools all had parity of esteem.
The 1944 Education Act (UK3) made it the responsibility of the local education
authorities to decide whether a child needed special educational treatment. If a child was
considered ‘ineducable’ he/she became the responsibility of the Department of Health
and Social Services and was not entitled to receive statutory education.

The Education Act of 19474 required local education authorities to determine the special
educational needs of children with learning difficulties, that is, children with special
needs. Special schools were to be established for the teaching of these children, or, where
the learning difficulties were not too severe, special classes were to be organised within
the mainstream education system.

http://www.socsci.ulster.ac.uk/education/scte/sen/articles/develofspecialedni.pdf

Answer 3

Try your local education department...they special departments called..SEN Speical Educational Needs