Timeline of education policies (Sociology)

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1944 - Tripartite system - Free education - 11+ test decided the school you went to - Grammar: more able, M/C, higher ed. - Technical: W/C, vocational. - Secondary modern: W/C, basics, failures - System reflects class divisions
1944 - Tripartite System EVALUATION - Grammar schools get more funding - Only academic ability is considered - Tests used elaborated code (biased) Functionalists believe it's meritocracy. Marxists argue it's ethnocentric and promotes false class consciousness.
1965 - Comprehensive system - Uses 'social democratic' ideals - Comprehensive schools are free state schools that have no entry requirements
1965 - Comprehensive system EVALUATION Functionalists say it's meritocratic as there are mixed classes. Marxists say the system emphasises the difference between social classes.
1988 - Education Reform Act - Marketing education by reducing state control and creating competition. - National Curriculum. - Formula funding + LMS. - Some schools became more selective. - Business sponsorship of schools (CTCs).
1988 - Education Reform Act EVALUATION - Marketisation can increase inequalities through league tables and funding formulas. - Myth of parentocracy (M/C parents have more economic/cultural capital). - Marxists say it benefits the ruling class.
1997 onwards - Education Action zones - 'Aim Higher' programmes - Educational Maintenence Allowance: allowance to W/C students for higher ed. - Specialist schools
1997 onwards EVALUATION LIBERALS: overly economic MARXISTS: doesn't really tackle inequality E.g. Tuition fees for higher ed affects the economically underprivileged.
ACADEMIES ACT 2010 - ACADEMIES: self-governed, more control, funded by businesses. - FREE schools: state-funded but different curriculum. Set up in places lacking schools - FAITH SCHOOLS: focuses on one specific religion.
EDUCATION ACT 2011 - Teachers are allowed to discipline students more. -Ofsted reports reassessed. - Teacher had all the power in the classroom
THE ENGLISH BACCALAUREATE - Linked to GCSE, measure of performance, not a qualification.
SLIMMED-DOWN NATIONAL CURRICULUM - Gave schools compulsory curriculum for core subjects only, so schools had more freedom with what to teach.
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