Allen Clarke (educationalist)

Cyril Alfred Allen Clarke (20 August 1910 – 12 July 2007) was the founding head of Holland Park School, which was the flagship of the comprehensive education ideal. Holland Park School, of which Allen Clarke was the first headmaster, was in the 1960s the most famous of its kind in the UK. Founded in 1958, it was dubbed the "socialist Eton" and was the showcase comprehensive school of state education, which aimed to rectify the divisive damage caused by a system that had virtually typecast children as educable or not by the age of 11.

Allen Clarke
Cyril Alfred Allen Clarke (1910–2007)
Born
Cyril Alfred Allen Clarke

20 August 1910
Loddon, Norfolk, UK
Died12 July 2007 (2007-07-13) (aged 96)
Norfolk, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of London
OccupationHeadmaster
EmployerHolland Park School
Known forEducationalist
SuccessorDerek Rushworth
SpouseEdna Francis Clarke
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