Educational policy and inequality

Question 1

Educational policy in Britain before 1988

Answer 1

Selection: the tripartite system
The comprehensive school system
Two theories of comprehensives

Question 2

Marketisation

Answer 2

Parentocracy
The reproduction of inequality
League tables and cream-skimming
The funding formula
Gewirtz parental choice
The myth of parentocracy
New labour and inequality

Question 3

Conservative government polices from 2010

Answer 3

Academies
Free School
Fragmented centralisation
Policies to reduce inequality

Question 4

The privatisation of education

Answer 4

Blurring the public/private boundary
Privatisation and the globalisation of education policy
the colonisation of schools
eduction as a commodity
Policies on gender and ethnicity