educational policies

Question 1

what is the butler act?

Answer 1

The Education Act 1944, free secondary education for all.

Question 2

What is the tripartite system?

Answer 2

the system in which children are separated into 3 different types of schools dependant on their 11+ exam results.

Question 3

What are the three types of schools in the tripartite system?

Answer 3

grammar schools, technical schools and secondary modern schools.

Question 4

When was the comprehensive system introduced?

Answer 4

1965

Question 5

what did the comprehensive system do?

Answer 5

It got rid of technical and grammar schools, giving equal education to all.

Question 6

What actually happened?

Answer 6

It was the choice of the local authority as to whether they wanted to become a comprehensive school, and some chose not to. because of this, grammar schools still exist.

Question 7

who took over government in 2010?

Answer 7

a conservative-lib dem coalition

Question 8

what was their focus on education?

Answer 8

marketisation

Question 9

which perspective favours marketisation?

Answer 9

the new right

Question 10

who theorised parentocracy?

Answer 10

miriam david

Question 11

what was Gerwitz’s theory?

Answer 11

parental choice. that some parents are more able to make informed decisions about their children’s education.

Question 12

what 3 types of choosers did Gewirtz identify?

Answer 12

privileged-skilled choosers
disconnected-local choosers
semi-skilled choosers

Question 13

who highlighted why middle class pupils achieve more highly in school?

Answer 13

Bartlett (1993)

Question 14

What did Bartlett say?

Answer 14

Cream skimming and silt shifting

Question 15

what is cream skimming?

Answer 15

The idea that good schools can be more selective in terms of admissions. Hence they can choose high achieving middle class pupils, which puts the pupil at an advantage.

Question 16

what is silt shifting?

Answer 16

Good schools can avoid taking less able pupils who will likely get poor results and damage their rank in the league tables.

Question 17

Who was in government from 1997 to 2010?

Answer 17

New labour

Question 18

What did New labour introduce?

Answer 18

Education Action Zones
The Aim Higher Peogramme
Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs)

Question 19

What was introduced in 2010?

Answer 19

The Academies Act

Question 20

What did this do?

Answer 20

It allows parents, teachers, faith organisations, businesses to open free schools, fully funded by the government. It allowed academy’s to control their own curriculum.

Question 21

What is fragmentation?

Answer 21

The comprehensive system being replaced largely by private providers is leading to greater inequality in opportunity.

Question 22

What is Centralisation of control?

Answer 22

Central government has the power to allow or require schools to become academies or allow free schools to be set up. They are funded by the government and their growth has reduced the role of elected local authorities in education.

Question 23

How did the conservative led coalition aim to reduce inequality?

Answer 23

The introduced free school meals and the pupil premium.

Question 24

State one policy introduced to reduce gender inequality in education.

Answer 24

Girls into Science and Technology (GIST)

Question 25

What is assimilation?

Answer 25

the idea that ethnic minority groups must internarte into mainstream british culture.

Question 26

what is one type of policy that aimed to promote achievement from minority ethic groups?

Answer 26

Multicultural Education Policies (MCE)