Education policy

Concept sort

Marketisation

Parental choice

Competition

Consumer choice

CHUBB & MOE

Run like businesses

League tables

Selection test (entrance exams)

Davies‘power to parents’

Different schools = choice

Academies

Ofsted Reports

Opt out of LEA control

Formula Funding

GerwitzMyth of parentocracy

Not all parents have same choice

Cultural Capital

Afford to move to catchment

EVALUATIONReproduce inequality

Create sink schools

Popular schools = better funding

Middle class play system

Best schools = demand

Ignores needs of poorer students (cultural deprivation)

New Labour (Marketisation)

-Specialist school status

-Academies

Compensatory education

(reduce inequality)

Cultural deprivation

EMA

After school clubs

Education Action Zones

Sure Start

Literacy and Numeracy hour

Evaluation of New Labour policies

- Middle class abuse selection for academies

- Supported competition

- School selection

Business Sponsorship

ERA 1988

Open enrolment

ERA 1988

National testing(SATS etc)

ERA 1988

National Curriculum

ERA 1988

Grant Maintained

Schools

ERA 1988

AIMS

- Raise standards- School accountability- Market principles

Evaluation of compensatory ed

- Ethnocentric

- Short term benefits

- Can’t break subcultures

- Not deal with inequality caused by capitalism

1988 ERA evaluation• Less choice in curriculum• Academic focus• Pressure on students• Sense of failure for some• Sink schools created• Exam factories• Unfair competition• Not deal with inequality

1988 ERA evaluation PROS

•Continuity between schools•Schools aiming higher•Compare performance•Accountability•Schools compete

THEORY LINK - functionalism

• Develop specialist skills•Meet needs of economy•Meritocracy

THEORY LINK - marxism

• Cultural capital•Reproduce inequality•Keep working class down•Schools slaves to economy