new right

• What do New Right believe about the education system?

  It is failing to perform its functions
• What functions should the education system perform according to New Right?

  Socialize students into shared values and prepare for work
• How do New Right propose to improve education?

  Run each school like a business
• What is marketisation in education?

  Introducing market forces into the education system
• What strategies do schools use to attract parents and students?

  Marketing strategies like open days
• What does the term 'parentocracy' mean?

  Parents make decisions and choices in education
• How does marketisation create competition among schools?

  Schools compete for new parents and students
• What do New Right believe will be the outcome of competition among schools?

  It will raise standards in education
• What is the expected result of schools improving teaching and exam results?

  All students leave with better exam results
• What is privatisation in the context of education?

  Taking state-funded education out of state control
• How do exam boards relate to privatisation?

  They are private businesses making profit
• What do New Right believe about the efficiency of privatisation?

  It would make the education system more efficient
• What is the New Right's view on standards in education?

  Privatisation would improve educational standards
• Marketisation has turned schools into ‘exam factories’. All of the focus is on grades, which has a

  negative impact on students’ educational experiences and wellbeing.
• Marketisation has led to an A-C Economy (schools are judged on the number of A-C grades achieved).Gillborn and Youdell argue that students who have no chance of achieving a C or aboveare

  labelled as ‘hopeless cases’ and given little or no support because their grades won’t contribute to the image of the school. These students tend to be from deprived, working class backgrounds, limiting their

  opportunities.
• Marxists argue that parentocracy is a myth – only middle class parents have greater choice because they

  have educational capital. This means they know how schools work