Social Policies Flashcards
What policy was introduced in 1944?
Tripartite System
What three schools were within the Tripartite system?
Grammar
Technical
Secondary Modern
When was the Comprehensive system introduced?
1965
How were schools allocated within the Comprehensive system?
Catchment areas
What decided what school you go to with the Tripartite system?
11+ exams
What are the two roles of the comprehensive system?
1) Promote social integration between m/c and w/c
2) Promote meritocracy
Who talks about cream skimming?
Bartlett (1993)
Who found that pupil premium wasn’t spent where it should be?
Ofsted (2012)
Ford
Little social mixing in comp due to streaming
David
Parentocracy - run by parents as the school now answers to them
Marketisation does what?
Take power from state and gives to parents, increase standards as schools compete
things ERA introduced
League tables
Nat cur
Ofsted
Funding formula
Ball and Whitty
Reproduction of inequality -
League tables as schools cream skim m/c
Funding formula as best skls (m/c) get most money and w/c get 0
Gerwirtz
Parental choice - parentocracy only benefit m/c
- skilled
- disconnected
- semi skilled
Only skilled could benefit as they knew what to do due to m/c capital
Myth of parentocracy
Ball
Gerwirtz
Only helps m/c
