comprehensive schools
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- Created on: 12-05-18 20:25
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- comprehensive education
- introduced during 1960s and 1970s
- pressure for comprehensives came from Labour governments
- all pupils in an area would attend the same school and have the same educational opportunities
- pupils would have more opportunities to gain qualifications
- to help break down the class barriers in society as one school for all pupils in a particular area meant that all social classes would be brought together
- to remove the stigma of academic failure at age eleven
- to remove the inequalities of the tri-tripartite system
- criticisms
- The new right claims comprehensive result in the 'dumbing down' of educational provision with the academically stronger being held back.
- the comprehensive system is not actually 'comprehensive'. it was introduced at different times in different areas. Private schools undermined attempt to provide 'one school for all'
- inequality continued within comprehensive schools through setting and streaming ' tri-partite system under one roof'
- The comprehensive system did not create 'classless schools' as schools reflected the socio economic make up of the catchment area
- changes to do with education system in 1980s-90s reduced equal access to same educational opportunities
- competition between schools allowing schools 'opt out' created differences between schools
- strengths and achievements of comprehensive education
- A much higher proportion of pupils have had the opportunity to obtain qualifications
- pass rates in GCSE and A level have all risen.
- it seems that brighter pupils are not held back in comprehensive schools
- why have comprehensive schools failed to meet their original aims
- original aims
- to create more equal access to educational opportunity
- to break down the class divisions in British society
- reasons
- some public opinion opposed comprehensive education. The new right claimed that academically capable pupils were held back in comprehensives.
- Not all teachers all fully supported the comprehensive system and some found it difficult to adapt to the new range of pupils in their schools
- original aims
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