biography
| name: |
Crowther, Geoffrey Crowther, Baron
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pronunciation:
[krowther]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–72)
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| biography:
| Economist, born in Claymont, Delaware, USA. He studied at Cambridge, Yale, and Columbia universities. He was on the staff of The Economist from 1932, becoming its editor (1938–56). The Crowther Report (1959), produced during his period as chairman of the Central Advisory Council for Education (1956–60), recommended the raising of the school-leaving age to 16, and was the first British education report to consider the implications of economic and social change for the education of young people. |
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