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Jean Floud Jean Esther Floud ( née McDonald ; 3 November 1915 – 28 March 2013 ) was a prominent educational sociologist and later an academic . She was Principal of Newnham College , Cambridge , from 1972 to 1983 . Early life . She was born Jean Esther McDonald to working-class parents and went to primary and secondary schools in her home town of Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex . In 1927 , the family moved to Stoke Newington , north London where she won a free place at North Hackney Central School for Girls , a grammar school . She studied sociology at London School of Economics ( LSE ) under David Glass , TH Marshall , Morris Ginsberg and Karl Mannheim . She graduated from LSE as a Hobhouse Memorial Prize winner in 1936 . Academic work . Floud worked as the assistant director of education in Oxford ( 1940–46 ) , then returned to LSE and taught there and at the Institute of Education ( 1947‑62 ) . With A . H . Halsey and F . M . Martin , she co-authored Social Class and Educational Opportunity ( 1956 ) . Her next book was Education , Economy , and Society : A Reader in the Sociology of Education ( 1961 ) , co-authored with Halsey and . Social Class and Educational Opportunity gave evidence that the 11-plus exam for grammar school entrance was unfair for working-class children . Floud wrote that within wide limits , the educability of children is determined by the subtle interaction of the social influences of home and school . Their findings started a long debate on the value and fairness of the 11-plus exam . Academic posts . In 1962 Floud was appointed as the second female Fellow of Nuffield College , Oxford ( 1962–72 ) . She was made an Honorary Fellow at Nuffield in 1983 . Floud was a member of the committee who produced the Franks Report ( 1957 ) which proposed reforms to ensure a more efficient administration of Oxford University . Her membership of this led , in 1972 , to an invitation to become Principal of Newnham College , Cambridge . Following her retirement as Principal of Newnham College in 1983 she was elected into an Honorary Fellowship of the college . She was made an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College , Cambridge in 1986 and also received honorary degrees from the universities of Leeds ( 1973 ) , City ( 1978 ) and London ( 2003 ) . Honours . Floud was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1976 New Year Honours . She turned down the offer of a life peerage from James Callaghans Labour government . Publications . - Social Class and Educational Opportunity ( 1956 ) , co-authored with A . H . Halsey and F . M . Martin - Education , Economy , and Society : A Reader in the Sociology of Education ( 1961 ) , co-authored with A . H . Halsey and C Arnold Anderson - The Sociology of Education : A Trend Report and Bibliography ( 1965 ) - Dangerousness and Criminal Justice ( Heinemann , 1981 ) , co-authored with Warren A . Young Personal life . Jean Esther McDonald was born in Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex . Her father was a cobbler and shoe salesman . Her mother was a shop assistant who suffered from frequent ill-health . While at LSE she met Peter Floud , an Oxford graduate . The couple joined the Communist Party and married in 1938 . They had three children : Andrew ( 1948-1982 ) ; Frances ( b . 1952 ) ; and Esther ( b . 1956 ) . Peter died of a brain tumour in 1960 ; their son Andrew died in a plane crash in 1982 . After Newnham in 1983 , Floud retired to Oxford where she died on 28 March 2013 . During her retirement she travelled and continued to serve on university committees . She also spent time with her friends , her books , her music , and with the families of her two surviving children Frances and Esther .