The most prestigious and oldest schools, including Eton and Harrow. so called because they were open to the fee paying public, not just those who attend a particular church, and, at the time they only alternative was private tutoring.
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Inadequacies in the localisation process and the impact that these might have on achievement
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A technical name for poverty and its effects on education attainment
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Everything which is taught within school in terms of knowledge, skills, understanding and values
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Groups of students who actively oppose the norms and values of the school
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Those who examine social context at the level of individuals exploring how they negotiate meanings and power relationships and form identities
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The phenomenon by which, through a range of processes, labels, attached to students become true- regardless of their accuracy
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Movement in education which argues that students should be exposed to a wide range of academic disciplines in order to produce rounded and critical thinkers
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The way in which individuals in society are divided into levels of status, such as in the class system
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Movement form the 1980's onward which aimed to focus school curriculum to better meat the needs of business and industry