Class differences in achievement- marketisation and selection policies
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- Class differences in achievement- marketisation and selection policies
- Brought in by Thatcher's 1988 Education Reform Act:
- Exam league tables- makes no allowance for level of pupil ability
- School competition to attract (particularly m/c) pupils- success breeds success!
- Funding formula- gives the same amount for all pupils
- Stephen Ball- schools now spend more marketing themselves to parents
- Geoffrey Walford- CTCs seen by m/c parents as the next best thing to a grammar school
- John Fitz- GM schools re-invent tradition to attract m/c
- Schools are under pressure to stream and select pupils
- Gerwitz- produced a 'blurred hierarchy of schools', a polarised education system:
- Popular, successful schools that are well-resourced, have a more able, largely m/c intake
- Unpopular, failing, under resourced schools with mainly low achieving, w/c pupils
- Will Bartlett- marketisation leads to popular schools:
- Silt-shifting, offloading pupils with learning difficulties with poor results that are expensive to teach
- Cream-skimming, selecting high ability kids who get best results and cost less to teach
- Gilborn and Youdell- 'educational triage'- schools categorise pupils:
- Hopeless cases (typically seen for w/c or black pupils, who are seen as lacking ability and are ignored, leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy)
- Those who will pass anyway
- Those with potential
- A*-C economy- system where schools ration, focusing on pupils with the potential for 5+ C's at GCSE, boosting their league table position
- Brought in by Thatcher's 1988 Education Reform Act:
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