Education Policy: 1988 Education Reform Act

Question 1

When did Thatcher implement the Education Reform Act?

Answer 1

1988

Question 2

How many main features did the 1988 Education Reform Act have?

Answer 2

6

Question 3

What 3 subjects are in the National Curriculum?

Answer 3

English, Maths, Science

Question 4

What exams would all secondary students have to take at the end of secondary school?

Answer 4

GCSE’s

Question 5

What would League Tables show?

Answer 5

Show all school’s exam results

Question 6

What did schools have to do to appeal to more students?

Answer 6

Market themselves

Question 7

Name a thing that schools do to attract more pupils

Answer 7

Open evenings

Question 8

How would schools now be structured like beginning with a b?

Answer 8

Businesses

Question 9

What now affected school budgets?

Answer 9

The amount of pupils they had in them

Question 10

What youth training schemes was implemented in to Education?

Answer 10

Work experience

Question 11

What does Ball believe has been created due to the marketisation of Education?

Answer 11

Parentocracy

Question 12

What does Parentocracy say?

Answer 12

The decision that your parents make for what school you go to will either positively or negatively impact your educational outcomes depending on the quality of the school

Question 13

What inspections were now introduced for schools?

Answer 13

OFSTED Inspections

Question 14

Name 4 ways that parents can research what school to send their child to

Answer 14

Brochures, Open Evenings, OFSTED Inspections, League Tables

Question 15

Why might parentocracy have impacted middle class families more positively than working class families?

Answer 15

Because they would be more likely to spend time researching good schools for their children

Question 16

How would working class families be at a disadvantage with parentocracy?

Answer 16

They would be less likely to spend time on looking for a good school for their child

Question 17

How could League Tables and OFSTED Inspections have benefitted schools?

Answer 17

It meant that they would have a heavier focus on improving their exam results and school quality

Question 18

How could schools becoming like businesses have disadvantaged schools?

Answer 18

Make them focus more on getting as many pupils in as possible and not focussing on other aspects of education

Question 19

How could parentocracy have disadvantaged schools?

Answer 19

If parents did not research good schools for their children then they would go to a bad school and have a worse time in education

Question 20

How would schools get more funding?

Answer 20

If they had more pupils

Question 21

What happened to house prices in catchment areas of good state schools? Why?

Answer 21

Because more people wanted to live closer to the good quality schools to get their children in to them

Question 22

What was the result of house prices increasing in areas where good quality state schools were?

Answer 22

It drove out the working class individuals who were more likely to misbehave

Question 23

Why did Middle Class students have more choice of what school they could go to?

Answer 23

Their parents were more likely to spend time researching multiple schools and finding the best one for their child