LT2 Educational Policy & Inequality - Marketisation

Question 1

Policy examples are…

Answer 1

League Tables (1990s)

Open enrolment (1990s)

Academies (2000s)

Question 2

Ranking of schools based on their data such as 5+ GCSE A*-C grades including English maths and English Baccalaureate?

Answer 2

League Tables

Question 3

Arguments for league tables?

Answer 3

1) Drives up standards in schools serving WC ares - to Compete with other schools
2) means of measuring the schools performance over time

Question 4

Arguments against league tables?

Answer 4

1) Cream skim and silt shift difficult or less able working-class pupils

2) 5+ A*-C educational triage/economy
•Pass anyway and Hopeless cases get little extra help
•Borderline C/D targeted for extra help

Question 5

Give students a chance general of any school even have outside the catchment area?

Answer 5

Open enrolment

Question 6

Arguments for open enrolment?

Answer 6

1) Drive up standards unpopular schools in working class areas have to improve or closedown
2) offers students can a great degree of choice

Question 7

Arguments against open enrolment?

Answer 7

1) economic capital means middle-class/Indian parents can move into expensive catchment areas with outstanding state schools
2) cultural capital means middle-class/Indian are better informed about school admissions open days league table that often result in the children attending better school than the their WC/ Pakistani/ black counterparts

Question 8

Schools that have opted out of LEA Control or forced to because they are consistently failing?

Answer 8

Academies

Some academies are sponsored by local businesses or operate as academy chains on my businesses

Question 9

Arguments for academies?

Answer 9

1) City Academy reduce inequality as they successfully turned around failing schools in deprived working class areas e.g. the Mossbawn Academy in Hackney
2) offer great control over the running of school e.g. in terms of finance and curriculum

Question 10

Arguments against academies?

Answer 10

1) as all schools now apply to become Converter academies therefore lost its focus on reducing inequality
2) marxists – and services for the myth that they drive up standards -legitimates turning education and a source of profit for the academy chains.

Question 11

Define marketisation?

Answer 11

The process of choosing market forces of consumer choice and competition between educational institution since the 1980s.