education

Question 1

parents have choice since 1988, this means?

Answer 1

They can select multiple schools to send their children too.

Question 2

What is formula funding?

Answer 2

where funding to schools is based on how many students they attract.

Question 3

What does formula funding cause?

Answer 3

Formula funding causes schools to raise their standards in order to attract more students.

Question 4

What is national testing?

Answer 4

The introducing of SATS and GCSES

Question 5

What is OFSTED?

Answer 5

A government organisation which inspects schools.

Question 6

Why does OFSTED exist?

Answer 6

To make sure schools are working at a good standard and to close any that aren’t.

Question 7

What are league tables?

Answer 7

Where schools are ranked based on things like: SATS, GCSES and A-Levels

Question 8

What does competition do?

Answer 8

Drives up standards through schools.

Question 9

What did Tough and Brooks think?

Answer 9

They thought that middle class families are more likely to make an informed choice on their child’s choice of school than working class parents.

Question 10

What is Parentocracy?

Answer 10

The fact that parents now have a choice

Question 11

What is the myth of parentocracy?

Answer 11

That all parents don’t actually have a complete choice as they may not know how to shop around schools and read OFSTED reports. However, the middle class have the connections in order to choose schools.

Question 12

How do middle class parents make the most of their choices?

Answer 12

They can move into catchment areas for schools as they have the wealth to do so. They can also take advantage of their societal position.

Question 13

What is an educational triage?

Answer 13

Categorising students into those who will achieve anyway, those who are hopeless, and those who require support in order to pass.

Question 14

What did Gewitz do?

Answer 14

Carried out research into the effects of marketisation.

Question 15

What are privileged skilled choosers?

Answer 15

Middle class parents who fully utilise choice.

Question 16

Who are disconnected local choosers?

Answer 16

Working class parents who find admission procedures difficult or understand.

Question 17

Who are semi skilled choosers?

Answer 17

Working class parents, who have ambitions for their children, but lack the cultural capital so they must rely on others opinions about schools.

Question 18

Who are Chubb and Moe?

Answer 18

Chubb and Moe thought private schools were better as they were answerable to paying parents. So, parents know how schools are doing and can make best choices for their children

Question 19

What is selection by mortgage?

Answer 19

Houses in catchment areas of the best schools are more expensive, meaning those with money see more likely to get into schools.

Question 20

What is Cream Skimming?

Answer 20

Where schools try to covertly attract the most able middle class pupils to ensure a good league table.

Question 21

What is Silt Shifting?

Answer 21

Covertly discouraging what are seen as less able working class pupils from putting their school as a choice.

Question 22

What is off rolling?

Answer 22

Removing disadvantaged and struggling pupils from the school so their poor results are not included in the school league table.

Question 23

What is Covert Selection?

Answer 23

Where students with better abilities/wealth are secretly selected for schools by doing things like upping uniform prices, to deter working classes.

Question 24

What are exam factories?

Answer 24

Where schools spend too much time focusing on teaching to test children rather than teaching them to learn and grow.

Question 25

What does the new right promote?

Answer 25

Marketisation of education.

Question 26

What are free schools?

Answer 26

Like academies but are newly set up by groups of parents, teachers, charities and businesses.

Question 27

What is the aim of free schools?

Answer 27

Creating diversity, by adding another option of parental choice. This increases competition and drives up standards.

Question 28

What do free schools enable teachers to do?

Answer 28

Design teaching styles to meet local needs.

Question 29

When do free schools get additional funding?

Answer 29

When they are in disadvantaged areas.

Question 30

Are free schools non-profit?

Answer 30

Yes

Question 31

Are free schools subject to OFSTED inspections?

Answer 31

Yes

Question 32

Do free schools follow the national curriculum?

Answer 32

No, they just must do core subjects.

Question 33

What are free schools made in response to?

Answer 33

What people want and need.

Question 34

True or false, in disadvantaged areas free schools accepted a lower amount of pupils on free school meals than the average for the area?

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Who often set up free schools, and why?

Answer 35

Middle class parents as they have the cultural capital to do so.

Question 36

What is Compensatory education?

Answer 36

Ways in which education policy can compensate for material or cultural deprivation.

Question 37

What are SureStart Centres?

Answer 37

centres which provide parenting and health advice from pregnancy to pre-school as well as providing childcare and early years education.

Question 38

What are EMA Grants?

Answer 38

Payments up to £30 a week given to 16-19 year old students from low-income households in the UK if they stay on at school or college.

Question 39

What introduced pupil premium?

Answer 39

The coalition

Question 40

What is pupil premium?

Answer 40

Additional funding given to schools for pupils on free school meals.

Question 41

What do Whitty and Power argue about compensatory education?

Answer 41

It may have helped some disadvantaged children.