education policy
- Created by: Lily
- Created on: 11-04-13 19:42
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- EDUCATION POLICY
- 1988 EDUCATION REFORM ACT empathise high standards, diversity, choice, marketisation
- STATE CONTROL
- MIRIAM DAVID "PARENTOCRACY" power shifted from teachers to parents
- KEY POLICIES
- OFSTEAD
- League tables
- Makertisation
- FORMULA FUNDING
- CRITICISMS
- Reproduces inequality (allows m/c to take advantage)
- League Tables, m/c "better schools" w/c end up in worse schools
- Funding Formula, middle class schools get more money therefore getting better teachers and better results
- MYTH OF PARENTOCRACY reproduces & legitimises inequality by favouring m/c parents through marketisation and "selection by mortgage"
- STATE CONTROL
- NEW LABOUR, reduce inequality, promote diversity and choice, better education
- REDUCING INEQUALITY
- education action zone - more money for poor areas
- AIM HIGHER
- educational maintenance allowance
- PROMOTING DIVERSITY AND CHOICE
- school specialism e.g language college
- 2006 - specialist schools on average 12% more GCSES than non.
- CRITICISMS
- WHITTY contradictory, university tutions fees stunts higher education
- Doesnt stop class inequality e.g private schools
- IMPROVEMENTS
- raised standards
- increased funding
- more university students
- schools building programme
- REDUCING INEQUALITY
- 1988 EDUCATION REFORM ACT empathise high standards, diversity, choice, marketisation
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