Selection Policies

Question 1

Tripartite system

Answer 1

split schools into three types: grammar, secondary modern, and secondary technical

Question 2

Selection by Mortgage

Answer 2

the house prices in the catchment areas of the best schools increased, pricing out poorer parents. Cream skimming – the best schools tended to select the best students, who were predominantly middle class

Question 3

internal selection- setting & streaming

Answer 3

Streaming is where students are grouped by ability for all or most of their subjects.
Setting is where students are grouped by ability for particular subjects

Question 4

Covert selection

Answer 4

Tough and Brooks (2007) use the term ‘covert selection’ to describe the process whereby schools try to discourage parents from lower socio-economic backgrounds from applying by doing such things as making school literature difficult to understand, having lengthy application forms, not publicising the school in poorer neighbourhoods