Education Policy And Inequality

Question 1

What created the tripartite system?

Answer 1

The 1944 Education Act

Question 2

What were the three different types of secondary schools?

Answer 2

Grammar schools
Secondary modern schools
Technical schools

Question 3

How were these identified?

Answer 3

The 11+ exam

Question 4

Who were grammar schools for?

Answer 4

Pupils with academic ability

Question 5

Who were secondary modern schools meant for?

Answer 5

Non academic curriculum
Offered manual work

Question 6

How did the tripartite system reproduce class inequality?

Answer 6

By channelling two social classes into two different types of school
Offered unequal opportunities
High gender inequality by requiring girls to have a higher grade boundary

Question 7

When was the comprehensive system introduced?

Answer 7

1965

Question 8

What did the comprehensive school system aim to do?

Answer 8

Overcome the class divide and make education more meritocratic
Abolished the 11+

Question 9

What do functionalists argue about comprehensive schools?

Answer 9

They promote social integration by bringing different social classes together in one school
More meritocratic

Question 10

What do Marxists argue about comprehensive schools?

Answer 10

Not meritocratic
Still have streaming and labelling

Question 11

When did marketisation become a central theme?

Answer 11

1988 Education Reform Act

Question 12

What are some policies to promote marketisation?

Answer 12

Publication of league tables
OFSTED inspection reports
Business sponsorship of schools
Open endolment
Specialist schools
Formula funding
Schools competing against eachother

Question 13

What is parentocracy

Answer 13

Rule by parengs
Shift power towards the consumers (parents)

Question 14

What does publishing league tables do?

Answer 14

Schools that achieve good exam results are more in demand

Question 15

What does Bartlett argue league tables do?

Answer 15

Cream skimming
Slit shifting

Question 16

What is cream skimming?

Answer 16

Good schools can be more selective
Choose their own customers
Recruit high achieving, mainly middle class pupils

Question 17

What is slit shifting?

Answer 17

Good schools avoid taking less able pupils
Who get poor results
Mainly working class

Question 18

What is formula funding

Answer 18

Allocated funds by how many pupils they get

Question 19

What does formula funding mean for popular schools?

Answer 19

More funds
Better qualified teachers
Better facilities

Question 20

What did gewirtz say about parental choice?

Answer 20

By increasing parental choice, marketisation advantages middle class parengs as they can use their economic capital to put them in a Better position for schools to choose their child

Question 21

How is this shown in Gewirtz study?

Answer 21

By showing three main types of parents
Privileged skilled choosers
Disconnected local choosers
Semi skilled choosers

Question 22

Who was Gerwirtz study on?

Answer 22

14 london secondary schools

Question 23

Who were the privileged skilled choosers

Answer 23

Middle class
Used economic capital for their child
Possessed cultural capital

Question 24

Who were the disconnected local choosers?

Answer 24

Working class
Restricted by lack of economic and cultural capital
Less confident in dealing with schools
Code of travel and distance

Question 25

Who were the semi skilled choosers?

Answer 25

Mainly working class, but ambitious for their child Lack cultural deprivation

Question 26

Who argues about the myth of meritocracy?

Answer 26

Ball

Question 27

What is the myth of meritocracy?

Answer 27

Where the inequality in education appears as fair and inevitable

Question 28

What did new labour want to do?

Answer 28

Reduce inequality

Question 29

What policy’s did New Labour release to reduce inequality?

Answer 29

- designated deprived areas as education action zones by providing them with additional resources - The Aim Higher programme to raise aspirations - increased funding for state education

Question 30

What conservative government policys were made in 2010?

Answer 30

Academies Free schools Fragmented centralisation Policy’s to reduce inequality

Question 31

What are academies?

Answer 31

Where funding was taken from local authority and given directly to academies by central government

Question 32

What are free schools?

Answer 32

It gives parents and teachers the opportunity to create a new school

Question 33

What is a disadvantage of free schools?

Answer 33

Takes fewer disadvantages children from nearby schools Only benefit children from highly educated families

Question 34

What is fragmented centralisation?

Answer 34

Fragmentation= the comprehensive system is being replaced by a patchwork, involving private providers, leads to greater inequality in opportunités

Question 35

What is centralisation of control?

Answer 35

Has the power to allow schools to become academies Funded by the central government

Question 36

What police’s have been made to reduce inequality?

Answer 36

Free school meals The pupil premium- money that schools receive for each pupil from a disadvantaged background

Question 37

What is the privatisation of education?

Answer 37

Privatisation refers to a transfer of services from being owned by the state to being owned by private companies

Question 38

What is privatisation and globalisation?

Answer 38

Many private companies in the education services industry and foreign owned

Question 39

What are some examples of globalisation?

Answer 39

Exam board Drexel is owned by US educational publishing the UKs four leading educational software companies are owned by global multinationals

Question 40

What are the types of globalisation?

Answer 40

Ecological globalisation Cultural globalisation Increased migration

Question 41

What is an example of economical globalisation?

Answer 41

Factories going abroad for cheap labour Meaning peopke in England have to get a higher education to get better jobs for more money As there are no factories

Question 42

What is an example of increased migration?

Answer 42

It means Britain is more multi cultural Changes your experience in education Learn about different religions in education More diversity

Question 43

What is an example of cultural globalisation

Answer 43

Different values are enforced in the country

Question 44

What is the cola isation of schools?