state shouldn't provide education but the government should encourage competition and privatised education to drive up standards and we should have a free marketplace
Chubb and Moe (New Right)
Schools need to be in competition with each other to raise standards - pupils from low income families consistently do 5% better in private than state schools
Chubb and Moe's solution to education
Market system where every family is given a voucher to spend on education from a school and this would be the school's main income forcing schools to improve standards to gain pupils
New Right's two roles of the state
1- imposes a framework in which schools compete, e.g. ofsted
2- ensure that schools transmit a shared culture, e.g. national curriculum
Evaluation of New Right perspective
-cause of low educational standards is inequality and poor funding, not state control
-contradiction between support for parental choice and National Curriculum implemented
