Educational Policy Flashcards
What are the 5 policies?
1) Butler Education Act
2) Comprehensive education
3) 1988 Education reform act
4) New Labour policies
5) Coalition and Conservative policies
According to New rights what does education need to do for individuals?
Education needs to socialise individuals into national identity and shared values.
What is meant by national identity?
Meeting the economic demands of the country
What are new right’s opinions on local councils?
Local councils have limited power, inefficiency, wasted money and poor outcome results
Leads to lower achievement of pupils.
What do New Rights argue that happened between 1960-1970?
Schools were dominated by local education authorities so the values may be different from the value consensus
What M word do New rights believe in and why?
Marketisation - It will empower the pupils and bring greater diversity therefore the standards would go up which makes a better future workforce
What is an AO2 for new rights?
Chubb and Moe - In USA private schools are better than public schools because schools were answerable to paying parents.
What do New rights say about the state?
The state still has a role to play
eg - Ofsted, results onto league tables and exam boards
What is parentocracy?
Parents have the choice of where to send their children for school
Marketisation
Making schools compete to be able to raise standards
How can schools compete with eachother?
OFSTED, League tables, Formula funding
What did E.R.A introduce?
The national curriculum, open enrolment, national testing, ofsted, league tables, formula funding
What is the aim of E.R.A?
Making schools more competitive (marketisation) and giving parents choice (parentocracy)
Meritocracy
People responsible for themselves and work hard
Disadv for E.R.A
Lower social class backgrounds have a disadvantage but wealthier parents could afford for “better schools” since they can travel
