Educational policy and inequality

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  • Educational policy and inequality
    • In Britain in 1988
      • Selection: tripartite system
        • Children selected and allocated (11+)
        • Pass = grammar schools (gender)
      • Comprehensive school system
        • Overcome class divide
      • Two theories of the role of comprehensive
        • Integration, brings children together
        • Reproduces class inequality (Ford)
    • Coalition government policies from 2010
      • Comprehensive reduced role of the state
      • Encouraged to become academies
      • Free school set up and run (benefit educated)
      • Lead to fragmentation and centralisation
      • Conservative-LibDem = EMAs, fees etc = class inequality
    • Privatisation of education
      • Transfer of public assests to private companies for profit
      • Senior officials leave to set us businesses
        • Pollack = gain insider knowledge
      • Cola-isation = private sector within education (Cadbury)
      • Ball = privatisation shapes educational policy
      • 'Legitimate object of private profit making'
      • Privatisation & competition as myth
      • Achievement of minorities = assimilation & multicultural
      • Evaluation = 'soft' approach, look at racism
    • Marketisation
      • Introducing market forces of consumer choice
      • David = marketised edu is a parentocracy
        • League tables, Ofsted etc.
      • Ball and Whitty = class inequality
        • Cream skimming, silt shifting
      • Formula funding = competition creates segragation
      • Gerwitz = privileged-skilled, disconnected & semi-skilled
      • Myth of meritocracy
      • Benn = New Labour paradox EMAs & fees

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