However, the public educators have not been successful in changing the content and transactional style of schooling to reflect their educational aims. Thus even the most successful of the projects described above, the Humanities curriculum Project, was a short lived experiment. This means that equality of educational opportunity has not been achieved in Britan. A number of social groups, including female, ethnic minority and working class students, are served less well by the educational system, in terms of life chances, than male, white and middle class students(Meighan,1986)