New Labour policies since 1997
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- New Labour policies since 1997
- Reducing inequality
- designating some diprived areas as education action zones and providing them with aditional resources
- ain higher programme to raise aspirations of groups who are under pressure in higher educatoion
- EMA
- Proposal to raise leaving age
- Promoting diversiy and choice
- secondary schools were encouraged to apply for specialist stauts in particular curriculum areas
- offers parents greater choice and raises standards of achievement by enabling schools to build on their strenthgs
- Promoted acadamies (former comprhensive schools with poor results)for raising achievement
- Some acadamies have improved the achivement of working class pupils others have worsened it
- secondary schools were encouraged to apply for specialist stauts in particular curriculum areas
- Postmodernism and new labour policies
- kenneth thompson-in a postmodern society schools can break free from the oppresive uniformity of the old centralised one fits all mas education system
- Critics of postmodernism argue it exaggerates the extent of diversity in education
- critics also say that postmodernism neglects the continuing importance of inequality in education
- Criticisms of new labour policies
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- Reducing inequality
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