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unusual facts about Modern School



Abe Bluestein

His Russian parents, Mendel and Esther Bluestein, were active in the anarchist group in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and were part of the Modern School (which Abe attended) at the Stelton Colony in New Jersey.

Khushwant Singh

He was educated at Modern School, New Delhi, Government College, Lahore, St. Stephen's College in Delhi and King's College London, before reading for the Bar at the Inner Temple.


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Anarchism and education

Goldman in her essay on the Modern School also dealt with the issue of Sex Education.

Brian Binley

Educated at Finedon Mulso Secondary Modern School on Wellingborough Road, Finedon (now a Junior School), Brian Binley joined the Conservative Party in 1959.

Clive Soley, Baron Soley

He went to Downshall Secondary Modern School (eventually ended up as Seven Kings High School) on Aldborough Road in Seven Kings near Ilford, then Newbattle Adult Education College in Newbattle, Midlothian, from 1961-3.

Eddy Shah

Shah was educated at the Scottish co-educational independent boarding school of Gordonstoun, and at both Haywards Heath Grammar School and Haywards Heath Secondary Modern School, at Haywards Heath in Sussex.

Education in the Australian Capital Territory

The first modern school opened in Canberra proper was Telopea Park School opened in 1923 in what was then called Eastlake.

Ellowes Hall School

It was built as a secondary modern school by Sedgley Urban District Council in 1964 near the Ellowes Hall stately home (which was demolished that year), to replace a smaller secondary school at nearby Redhall, but since 1966 has existed within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.

Geoffrey Hughes

He then went to Abbotsford Secondary Modern School in Norris Green, Liverpool.

Harry Cohen

Cohen left the George Gascoigne Secondary Modern school (closed in 1966) on Queens Road in Walthamstow at 15, and went on to train as a public service accountant at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, as well as studying part-time at East Ham Technical College (became Newham College of Further Education).

Marshland High School

Marshland High School is an 11-16 co-educational comprehensive secondary modern school in the Fenland area of Norfolk, England, situated in the village of West Walton (near Wisbech).

Nantwich and Acton Grammar School

Malbank School and Sixth Form College: modern school at the end of Welsh Row (after 1921)

Poundswick Grammar School

Instead he approved the original plan of the Poundswick Grammar School for 750 children, and a secondary modern school at Oldwood (which the council wanted to combine into a comprehensive on two sites), and two single sex technical schools at West Wythenshawe (which the council wanted to combine into a single comprehensive).

Rena, Norway

A campus (modern school building and student dormitories) of Hedmark University College is located there.

Shona McIsaac

She went to the SHAPE High School in Mons in Belgium, then Barne Barton Secondary Modern school in St Budeaux and Stoke Damerel High School for Girls in Stoke, Plymouth, which closed in 1986.

Sylvia Heal

Born as Sylvia Lloyd Fox in Hawarden, north-east Wales, the daughter of Shotton steelworker John Lloyd-Fox and Ruby Hughes, she was educated at the Elfed Secondary Modern School (now Elfed High School) on Mill Lane in Buckley, the Coleg Harlech, and at Swansea University, where she was awarded a BSc in Economics in 1968.