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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on the spine. 286 pages clean and tight. Brian Cox became famous (or infamous) in 1969 when he published the first of several papers about `disastrous mistakes’ in modern education. The storm has yet to die down. The Black Papers, as they came to be known, were `the blackest day in education for 100 years’, according to the Secretary of State for Education of the time. Two decades later, Brian Cox’s call for a return to structured, disciplined teaching has been completely vindicated and is now in the mainstream of educational policy. Brian Cox made the headlines again in 1989 when he chaired the National Curriculum English Working Group. Its report, known as the Cox Report, met with another flurry of controversy and an intervention by the Prince of Wales. In fact, it is now required reading for all teachers in primary schools and all teachers in State secondary schools. This is a fascinating memoir by a poet, literary critic and born teacher who has long been at centre stage in Britain’s educational debate just as he has in literary circles. Hard-hitting and controversial, The Great Betrayal is about the fight for the future of Britain’s schools and universities after thirty years of the permissive society, a lie that became the status quo. It is essential reading for parents, teachers and anyone committed to a free society.