Education POLICY Flashcards
What was the TRIPARTITE SYSTEM?
You went to school depending on your intellectual skills
- vocational
- Grammar
- secondary modern
What was TRIPARTITE SYSTEMS aim
To influence and encourage meritocracy
What did the TRIPARTITE SYSTEM achieve
A rise in call in-equality
A rise in gender in-equality
What was the COMPRHENSIVATION SCHOOL SYSTEM? 1965
Scrapped the 11 plus as a compulsive exam for grammar schools.
Catchment areas were introduced, your local school was your school.
To stop the large divide in achievement gap between lower nd upper classes
What was MARXISTS views on COMPREHENSION
Was a way to serve capitalism.
What was MARKETISATION OF SCHOOLS
Under Margret thatchers government.
Schools became more like businesses, who need to get the most and best students to come to their school.
Education market.
Parents have the choice to send their children to school.
Reducing state control.
Why did MARKETISATION achieve inequality?
GWIRTS (parents choice)
GEWIRTS: middle class parents have better ability in choosing the right education as they are more experienced and knowledgeable. Their children have an advantage
What is CREAM SKIMMING, and how did it effect inequality in marketisation.
Cream skimming: where ‘good’ schools have the ability to be selective over the children which apply to the schools.
Therefore they choose higher achievers over low achievers which will then reflect better for the school.
Which created a divide in schools, as one school had loads of rubbish kids where the other doesn’t
What is SLIT SHIFTING, and how does it increase inequality in Marketisation
Schools have the ability to ‘sieve’ through the pupils which apply and pick out the best. Increases inequality as it means schools only take on middle class stereotypical good students
What is the NEW LABOUR education system
Wanted to reduce inequality
Encourage children to stay in education as long as possible.
Introduced number of laws and policies to help reduce the inequality
What were some of the policies introduced by NEW LABOURs education system?
AIM HIGHER PROGRAM
give under represented areas more aspirations.
EDUCATION MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE
gives working class, poorer families money for the child to keep going to school
EDUCATION ACTION ZONES
giving additional resources to under achieving schools
What was the COALITION GOVERNMENTS education policy
Influenced by new right. To furthermore reduce the class divide in educational achievement. They introduced more policies, to help working class families
What were some of the policies created by Coalition governments
Free school meals, help poor families feed their kids. Give kids better chance
FREE SCHOOLS.
schools ran by teachers, parents, faith groups rather than local area.
More passion and personal to help the kids
