Critical race theory and Marketisation and segregation

• Critical race theory


  Sees racism as an ingrained failure of society, involving not just the intentional actions of individuals but more importantly institutional racism
• Institutional racism


  Lock-in inequality, where the scale of historical discrimination is so large that there no longer needs to be any conscious intent to discriminate, the inequality becomes self-perpetuating, it feeds on itself
• Ethnic inequality in education


  So deep rooted and so large that it is a practically inevitable feature of the education system
• Marketisation


  Gives schools more scope to select pupils, allowing negative stereotypes to influence decisions about school admissions
• Selection procedures


  Lead to ethnic segregation, with minority pupils failing to get into better secondary schools due to discrimination, favouring white pupils and disadvantaging pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds
• The Commission for Racial Equality identified biases in Britain, where racism in school admissions procedures means that ethnic minority children are more likely to end up in unpopular schools
• Biases in school admissions procedures


  • Reports from primary schools that stereotype minority pupils
  • Racist bias in interviews for school places
  • Lack of information and application forms in minority languages
  • Ethnic minority parents are often unaware of how the waiting list system works and the importance of deadlines