Educational Policy

Question 1

1944 Education Act?

Answer 1

The tripartite system.

Question 2

Name of system brought in in 1965?

Answer 2

Comprehensive (circular).

Question 3

How did Julienne Ford (1969) criticise the comprehensive system?

Answer 3

Streaming =

it didn’t bring w/c and m/c pupils together as of streaming (she did a study).

Question 4

1988 Education Act?

Answer 4

ERA.

Question 5

Government of the ERA?

Answer 5

Conservative - Margaret Thatcher.

Question 6

Who describes marketised education as a ‘parentocracy’?

Answer 6

David (1993).

Question 7

Who said league tables and the formula funding reproduce class inequality?

Answer 7

Ball (1994) and Whitty (1998).

Question 8

Who discussed ‘cream-skimming’ as an issue of league tables?

Answer 8

Bartlett (1993).

Question 9

Who discussed parental choice?

Answer 9

Gerwirtz (1995).

Question 10

Who said about the myth of parentocracy?

Answer 10

Leech and Campos =

• m/c can afford to move to the catchment areas of more desirable schools.

Question 11

Who brought in policies in 1997-2010?

Answer 11

New Labour.

Question 12

Government from 2010?

Answer 12

Coalition (David Cameron).

Question 13

What did Rebecca Allen (2010) find about free schools?

Answer 13

Research in Sweden.

• 20% of schools are free schools.
• they only benefit children from highly educated families.

Question 14

Who discussed fragmentation and centralisation of free schools?

Answer 14

Ball (2011).

Question 15

What did Ofsted find about the spending of pupil premiums?

Answer 15

2012 =

in many cases it isn’t spent on those it is supposed to help.

Question 16

What did Ball (2007) find about the privatisation of education?

Answer 16

Private companies (PPPs) that provide money to build, finance and operate educational services expect to make up to 10x as much profit as they do on other contracts.

Question 17

What did Pollack (2004) find about the blurring of the private/public boundary of education?

Answer 17

The increase of education workers (e.g. headteachers) working in private sector education businesses allows companies to buy ‘insider knowledge’ to help win contracts.

Question 18

What does Buckingham and Scalon (2005) find about the globalisation of education services?

Answer 18

The UK’s 4 leading educational software companies are all owned by global multinationals (Disney, the US toy companies Mattel and Hambro, and French media corporation Vivendi).

Question 19

Who discussed schools being a targeted by private sectors for the ability to legitimise anything associated with them?

Answer 19

Molnar (2005).

Question 20

What does Stuart Hall (2011) say about the Coalition policies?

Answer 20

Public services being handed over to private services, owned by capitalists.

• Reject neoliberal view that privatising education increases standards, instead, this is a way to legitimise capitalists gaining profit from education.