New right

• Neoliberalism is based on the idea that individuals should have the freedom to dispose of their own property and that governments should encourage competition
• According to neoliberals, the value of education lies in how well it enables the country to compete in the global marketplace, which can only be achieved if schools become more like businesses
• Neoliberal values evident in education today

  Empowering parents and treating them as consumers, using competition between schools to drive up standards
• Ways in which neoliberal values are evident in education today

  • Empowering parents, treating them as consumers, using competition between schools to drive up standards
• The New Right is a conservative political perspective that incorporates neoliberal economic ideas
• A central principle of the New Right is that the state cannot meet every individual's needs, and people are best left to meet their own needs through the free market based on competition, supply, and demand
• Similarities and differences between the New Right and functionalist views of education

  Differences: State funding is good (funding), Postiul v= negative, Benefecit. Similarities: Competition, inequality is valuable for society
• The New Right argues that education systems are not achieving their goals because they are run by the state, imposing uniformity and disregarding local needs
• The New Right's solution to these problems is the marketisation of education, believing that competition between schools and empowering consumers will bring greater diversity, choice, and efficiency to schools
• Ways local schools could successfully compete in the marketplace to attract more students

  Pass rate, Attractiveness, Cost-effectiveness
• According to John Chubb and Terry Moe (1990), state-run education in the United States has failed because it has not created equal opportunity and has failed the needs of disadvantaged groups
• State-run education in the United States is not efficient as it has failed to produce pupils with skills needed by the economy
• Private schools deliver higher quality education because they are answerable to their paying customers, the parents
• Chubb and Moe found that pupils from low-income families consistently achieve 5% better in private schools than in state schools
• Chubb and Moe urge for the introduction of a market system in education that would put education in the hands of parents and local communities, allowing them to shape schools to meet their needs, thus improving quality and efficiency of education
• Introduction of a market system in education

  Each family would be given a voucher to spend on buying education from a school of their own choice. This would force schools to become more supportive of parents' wishes since the vouchers would be the main source of the schools' income. Schools would have to compete for business, thus improving the quality of their product for the customers
• A voucher system might increase class inequalities in education
• Ways a voucher system might increase class inequalities in education

  • middle class could afford more
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  • upper richer niches can pay more
• The state plays two important roles in education according to the New Right
• Two important roles of the state in education according to the New Right

  • The state imposes a framework on schools within which they have to compete. For example, league tables mean that parents can make an informed choice about their child's education
  • The state ensures that schools transmit shared cultural norms and values by imposing a single National Curriculum, which would ensure that schools socialise pupils into a single national heritage and affirm national identity