EDUCATION - ACTS AND POLICIES

Question 1

What did the 1870 education act achieve?

Answer 1

state commitment to provide education on a national scale

Question 2

what did the 1880 education act achieve?

Answer 2

compulsory education for children ages 5-10

Question 3

what did the 1876 royal commission on factory act achieve?

Answer 3

supported compulsory education to stop child labour

Question 4

what is the idea of Marketisation?

Answer 4

schools are run like businesses

Question 5

what is cream - skimming?

Answer 5

selection of higher ability pupils - they get the best results and cost less to teach

Question 6

what is sillt-shifting?

Answer 6

off loading pupils with learning difficulties because theyre expensive to teach and get bad results

Question 7

what is the comprehensive policy?

Answer 7

aim to abolish the 11+ and class division within the Tripartite system

Question 8

what are the 5 marketisation policies?

Answer 8

1 - Exam league tables

2 - OFSTED reports

3- business sponsorships.

4 - open enrolment

5- funding formula

Question 9

what is streaming?

Answer 9

sorting pupils according to their ability

Question 10

what is cultural contagion?

Answer 10

black kids being perceived as problematic

Question 11

what are the assimilation policies

Answer 11

• bussing
• multicultural education (MCE)
• anti race education (ARE)

Question 12

What is the aim of assimilation policies

Answer 12

focused on the need for pupils from minority ethnic groups to assimilate into British mainstream culture as a way of raising achievement

Question 13

what did assimilation policies encourage immigrants to do

Answer 13

to adopt the language , values and customs of British cultutre

Question 14

what are the criticisms of comprehensive schools

Answer 14

one type of school for everyone so streaming is re produced and class inequalities happen under one roof

no choice for parents because its a non selective school

Question 15

Criticisms of the Tripartite system

Answer 15

- gender bias in subject choice 
and reproduced class inequalities and an unfair education system because some can't afford tutoring for the 11 plus

Question 16

what is bussing and a consequence of

Answer 16

dispersing ethnic minorities into different schools which leads to no qualifications and reduced economic opportunities

Question 17

what are the marketisation policies

Answer 17

leauge tables 
ofsted reports 
funding formula 
national curriculum 
parentocracy 
branding