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- - - - pass=grammar school
      - fail=secondary modern
  - - - underpreforming areas were provided with additional resources and funding
    - - raise aspirations of groups under represented in higher education e.g. wc and em
    - - payments fro pupils from low income families to encourage them to stay in post 16 education
  - - - impact on wc
- - - - most schools try to attract the brightest most well behaved students to do well in league tables
      - selection by ability
        
        academic ability
      - selection by aptitude
        
        students are selected based on their potential to be good in certain subjects
        
        specialist schools are allowed to select up to 10% of students who they think will be especially good at certain subjects
      - selection by faith
        
        proportion of students may be selected on the basis of their commitment to certain religious beliefs
  - - - allows equal opportunity
    - - parent can apply for a place at any state funded school in any area and if that school is undersubscribed they must accept the pupil
      - parents get to choose the school their child goes to
      - may not get their first choice if a school is over subscribed
    - - give priority to children in care
      - if they have brothers or sisters at the school
      - those who live in the catchment area
      - those who are pupil premium
    - - does not create equality
  - - - parentocracy is a myth as wealthy parents have cultural capital to move houses to get their child into a good school
    - - two groups of parents
        
        privileged skills choosers
        
        mc parents who use their cultural capital to take advantage of opportunities and their economic capital to move into the catchment area
        
        disconnected local choosers
        
        wc parents who lack economic and cultural capital. They send their children to the local school
  - - - privatisation is education
      - schools importing ideas and techniques from the private sector
      - e.g. choosing teachers
    - - privatisation of education
      - opening state education to private buisnesses
      - e.g. staff training,transport,counsellors
- - - - UK gov send approx £90billion on education
- - - - whatever school they send their children to receives money
  - - - allows parents to easily access which schools in their area are the best
    - - gov organisation that inspects schools
      - underachieving schools get shut if they consistently recieve bad reports
      - raised standards as poor inspection could result in new management
    - - they have worked to improved GCSE results nearly every year for the past 30 years
      - no successive gov has changed the fundamental foundations of the act
    - - focusing on exam results and position leads to over testing on pupils
      - schools 'teach to test' and put more emphasis on core subjects
      - middle class has more effective choice due to their high incomes
        
        houses in catchment area are more likely to be expensive
        
        mc more able to get children to a larger range of schools as they are more likely to own cars
      - Ball
        
        mc are 'skilled choosers' and more comfortable dealing with schools and use social networks to talk to other parents
        
        wc are disconnected choosers as they lack cultural and social capital
        
        happy to send their children to the closest school
        
        mc parents want mc schools and schools want mc students
        
        schools see mc as easy to teach and likely to preform well
        
        schools more likely to accept mc than wc
      - experience of schools become very negative for failing students
        
        due to labelling,teachers more likely to put effort into those achieving top grades etc
      - inequality of education oppourtunities
        
        best schools become oversubscribed and can 'cream skim' the best pupils as lots of pupils competing for one place
        
        bottom schools get the students all other schools have rejected
- - - - privatisation from outside
      - e.g. free schools,building and maintaining of schools etc
    - - privatisation within the edcuation system (e.g. marketisation)
  - - - cola-isation of schools
        
        private sector schools may have vending machines and development of brands
        
        education is then seen as a source of capitalism instead of improving young people's lives
    - - Sweden-20% of schools are free schools show they only benefit children from highly educated families
- - - - raising boys achievement project
      - national literacy strategy
      - Dad's and son's campaign
    - - GIST
      - WISE
      - female role models
  - - - need to pupil's from me backgrounds to assimilate into mainstream british culture
    - - way of raising their achievement by helping those who's first language isn't english
    - - valuing all cultures in the school curriculum, raising their self esteem and achievements
      - Stone
        
        em do not fail for lack of self esteem