Policies and Education Flashcards
1
Q
What did the 1944 education act introduce?
remember it as 3:3
A
• 3 things:
- the tripartite system
- the 11+
- the leaving age of 15
• the tripartite system consisted of 3 types of schools:
- grammar schools (seen as the best, m/c)
- secondary modern schools (most people)
- technical schools
2
Q
What did the introduction of comprehensive schools in 1965 do?
A
What?
• wanted to create equal opportunity
How?
• got rid of the 11+ so children are no longer labelled as failures for not passing it
(-) streaming still occurs, can still undergo ‘failure labelling’ without 11+
3
Q
What policies aimed to promote gender equality?
A
- The 1988 National Curriculum - all students had equal entitlement to all subjects for the first time (girls did maths and science)
- 1999 government gave grants to primary schools to hold extra writing classes for boys to push up SAT scores
- 2005 breakthrough programme introduced mentoring, after-school classes etc to improve boys exam performance
