New Right

• overview

  • The New Right perspective: Education should promote economic efficiency, competition, and choice, reflecting market principles.
  • Aims to raise standards through accountability and market principles.
  • Critics argue it can lead to increased inequality and a narrow focus on measurable outcomes.
• Marketisation

  • Education systems should operate like a market.
  • Schools compete for students to improve standards and efficiency.
  • Parents and students are seen as consumers with choices.
• Parent choice - parentocracy

  • Emphasis on increasing parental choice in selecting schools.
  • Belief that competition among schools raises overall quality.
  • Vouchers and charter schools as mechanisms for choice
• standards and accountability

  • High standards and measurable outcomes are crucial.
  • Schools should be accountable for their performance.
  • Use of standardized testing and league tables to monitor school performance.
• Core Knowledge and skills

  • Focus on traditional academic subjects and basic skills.
  • Curriculum should be rigorous and knowledge-based.
  • Importance of discipline and control in schools.
• milton friedman

  • Advocated for school vouchers to increase competition.
• Chubb and Moe

  • Critiqued the inefficiency of state-run education systems.
  • Proposed that market principles would lead to better educational outcomes.
• critiques

  • Market-based approaches can exacerbate social inequalities.
  • Better-resourced families may have more access to high-quality schools.
  • Emphasis on competition may undermine social cohesion and community values.
  • Focus on core knowledge and standardized testing can narrow the curriculum.
  • Potential neglect of creative, critical thinking, and vocational education.
• policies implemented

  • Introduction of School Vouchers:
  • Allows parents to use public funding allocated for their child's education to choose a school, whether public or private.
  • Publication of League Tables:
  • Schools' performance data published in league tables, ranking schools based on exam results and other performance metrics.
  • Ofsted Inspections:
  • Performance-Based Funding:
  • Linking school funding to performance metrics, such as test scores and graduation rates, to incentivize high performance.