new right-education

• What do New Right say is the Role and Function of the education system?

  Choice and Competition.
• Who are the key writers for New Right?

  Chubb and Moe
• Who have been influenced by new rights views?

  Both conservative and labour policies.
• What are the key ideas of New Right?

  Belief that the state cannot meet people 's needs and that people are best left to meet their own need through afree market.
• What d they believe competition creates?

  Innovation and Success.
• What do the new right argue?

  That all state education systems use their power to impose their view of what kinds of schools we should have. - a 'one size fits all' approach.
• Why do they say this?

  A schools that wastes money and get poor results is not favoured by consumers so therefore achievement decreases, it gets a less qualified workforce and a less prosperous economy.
• What is the New Right solution to this?

  Themarketization of education.
• What did Chubb and Moe research?

  Consumer Choice.
• How did Chubb and Moe research this?

  They compared American state schools and private schools.
• What did they find about Private Schools?

  They were more efficient as the had to please the consumers in order to survive (fee paying parents).
• What did they argue about state schools?

  That they have failed with disadvantaged groups, lower classes and ethnic minorities in particular.
• What did they argue following this research?

  That consumer (eg. parents) should have more control to shape and improve quality and efficiency of education.
• How could this be done?

  Give families a voucher which would be the schools main source of income forcing them to be more efficient.