Education Reform Act
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- Created on: 22-05-18 10:35
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- The Education Reform Act (1988)
- Introduced more vocational courses, OFSTED, the national curriculum, more testing and exams and their should be more competition within schools
- Features
- Independence: Make schools including further education more independent and ran like a business
- Competition: Make schools and colleges compete with one another for students
- Choice: Give customers a choice of schools, enabling them to choose whatever education suits their needs
- Standard Raising
- schools will be forced to raise standards in order to attract the students they want
- Schools with poorer results are more likely to have local low class students who misbehave and are disadvantaged
- The Educational Triage
- League tables, according to Gillborn and Youdell (2004), creates an 'A-C Economy'
- Therefore schools concentrate on helping pupils aiming for A-C's and not showing anyone below that any attention
- Competition and Selection
- Schools are under pressure to select more able, middle class pupils to gain a higher ranking
- Bartlett (1993) argues that marketization leads to popular schools cream skimming and silt-shifting
- Cream Skimming: Selecting higher ability pupils who gain the best results and cost less
- Silt-Shifting: Off-loading pupils with learning disabilities who get poor results and cost more
- Parentocracy
- Privileged Skill Choosers: middle class - cultural and economic capital - takes advantage
- Disconnected Local Chooser: working class - interested in safety and quality of schools facilities
- Semi-Skilled Choosers - mainly working class - ambitious for children - rely on others opinions - likely to appeal
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