* What is the background to and significance of policies of devolution and choice in education that are currently fashionable in many parts of the world? * What has been the actual impact of these policies on school managers, teachers, students and local communities? * How might equity be preserved in systems of education where increased responsibility is delegated to the level of the school? This book examines recent school reforms in England and Wales, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden. It suggests that, at the same time as appearing to devolve power to individual schools and parents, governments have actually been increasing their own capacity to 'steer' the system at a distance. Focusing particularly on the 'quasi-markets' favoured by the New Right, the authors review the research evidence on the impact of the reforms to date. They conclude that there is no strong evidence to support the educational benefits claimed by the proponents of the reforms and considerable evidence that they are enabling advantaged schools and advantaged parents to maximise their advantages. They suggest that, if these damaging equity effects are to be avoided, there is an urgent need to redress the balance between consumer rights and citizen rights in education.

Devolution And Choice In Education

Education & Teaching

Whitty,Geoff

Power,Sally

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

The authors of Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education start with the contention that the City Technical Colleges experiment--schools funded by the government to offer choice to inner-city parents and pupils--needs to be understood as part of a much broader political project--a project whose solution is based on entrepreneurship, competition and aversion to welfarism offered by the New Right in answer to Britain's economic malaise. Based upon research which includes nearly 400 interviews with players involved at all levels, the book follows the initiative from planning to effects. It focuses on the impact of recruitment policy on parental choice and the effect the new schools have had on local provision of education, and asks how far CTC's actually constitute a new form of school. The book will be valuable to those involved in the school choice debates currently in progress.

Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education: The City Technology College Experiment

Science & Math

Technology

Routledge

Making Sense of Education Policy: Studies in the Sociology and Politics of Education (1-off Series)

The particular strength of this book is Geoff Whitty′s grasp on and insights into the politics of education... he is able to bring to bear an authoritative perspective which is unrivaled in the United Kingdom. there is no other current book which compares in terms of the breadth and depth of this′ - Professor Stephen Ball, Institute of Education, University of London This book aims to make sense of the changes in education policy over the past decade, using the resources of the sociology and politics of education. The author shows that wider sociological perspectives can help us to appreciate both the limits and the possibilities of educational change. Geoff Whitty illustrates this through studies of curriculum innovation, school choice, teacher professionalism and school improvement. He considers how far education policy can be used to foster social inclusion and social justice and the book concludes with an assessment of New Labour education policy in these terms. The book deals with education policy in England and Wales, as well as making comparisons with contemporary education policy in other countries. This book is relevant to students of education at masters and doctoral levels, students of social policy, and policy-makers.

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Sage Publications Ltd.

The particular strength of this book is Geoff Whitty′s grasp on and insights into the politics of education... he is able to bring to bear an authoritative perspective which is unrivaled in the United Kingdom. there is no other current book which compares in terms of the breadth and depth of this′ - Professor Stephen Ball, Institute of Education, University of London This book aims to make sense of the changes in education policy over the past decade, using the resources of the sociology and politics of education. The author shows that wider sociological perspectives can help us to appreciate both the limits and the possibilities of educational change. Geoff Whitty illustrates this through studies of curriculum innovation, school choice, teacher professionalism and school improvement. He considers how far education policy can be used to foster social inclusion and social justice and the book concludes with an assessment of New Labour education policy in these terms. The book deals with education policy in England and Wales, as well as making comparisons with contemporary education policy in other countries. This book is relevant to students of education at masters and doctoral levels, students of social policy, and policy-makers.

The Grammar School Question provides an even-handed analysis of the research evidence on comprehensive and selective education against the background of heated debate on the future of grammar schools. The book concludes with a discussion of some of the consequences of abolishing or retaining selective education.

The Grammar School Question: A Review of Research on Comprehensive and Selective Education (Perspectives on Educational Policy, 7)

Crook, David

UCL IOE Press

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 202pp. A nice clean copy.

Developing Inclusive Schooling: Perspectives, Policies and Practices (Bedford Way Papers)

Gillborn, David

Vincent, Carol

Lunt, Ingrid

Warren, Simon

Sammons, Pat

Institute of Education

This book examines recent school reforms in England and Wales, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden. It suggests that, at the same time as appearing to devolve power to individual schools and parents, governments have actually been increasing their own capacity to 'steer' the system at a distance. Focusing particularly on the 'quasi-markets' favoured by the New Right, the authors review the research evidence on the impact of the reforms to date. They conclude that there is no strong evidence to support the educational benefits claimed by the proponents of the reforms and considerable evidence that they are enabling advantaged schools and advantaged parents to maximize their advantages. They argue that, if these damaging equity effects are to be avoided, there is an urgent need to redress the balance between consumer rights and citizen rights in education.

Devolution and Choice in Education: The School, the State, the Market

Halpin, David

Australian Council for Educational

First published in 1993, Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education explores how city technology colleges (CTC) have managed the task of selecting intakes representatives of their catchment areas and explore their impact on local schools. From their announcements in 1986, CTC have been presented both as a new choice of school for the inner city and as pointing the way to a more diversified education system. This account of their development uses interviews with key architects of the initiative to identify more clearly the objectives CTCs were designed to serve. It then draws on interviews and observation in CTCs themselves to discover how far these schools are becoming centres of innovation in school management, curriculum and approaches to teaching and learning. Throughout, the CTC policy is considered in the context of Government's broader political project to challenge 'welfarism' and to encourage entrepreneurship, competition, and choice. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of education policy, sociology of education, and education in general.

Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education (Routledge Revivals)

Gewirtz, Sharon

EDWARDS, TONY

The OECD tells us that 90 percent of education reforms are not properly evaluated. So it seems that governments have not lived up to their own ideals of evidence-informed policymaking.Research and Policy in Education argues that education policy is as often driven by political ideologies as by solid research evidence. It explores this claim with case studies of:• the Coalition government’s reform of teacher training towards a school-led approach;• the use of evidence in international policy borrowing and the rhetoric of "what works";• the deployment of policies that aim to narrow the social class achievement and participation gap.The book concludes with a plea for more discipline-based research on education, and a reassertion of the importance of the sociology of education as an essential resource for making sense of contemporary education policy.

Research and Policy in Education: Evidence, Ideology and Impact (Bedford Way Papers, 46)

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Devolution And Choice In Education

Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education: The City Technology College Experiment

Making Sense of Education Policy: Studies in the Sociology and Politics of Education (1-off Series)

Making Sense of Education Policy: Studies in the Sociology and Politics of Education (1-off Series)

The Grammar School Question: A Review of Research on Comprehensive and Selective Education (Perspectives on Educational Policy, 7)

Developing Inclusive Schooling: Perspectives, Policies and Practices (Bedford Way Papers)

Devolution and Choice in Education: The School, the State, the Market

Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education (Routledge Revivals)

Research and Policy in Education: Evidence, Ideology and Impact (Bedford Way Papers, 46)