criticisms

• marketisation improving social inequalities

  -competition between schools benefits middle class

  -use their cultural & economic capital to access more desirable schools
• real cause of low educational standards

  -real reason for educational underachievement:

  > social inequality

  > lack of funding for state schools
• does having compulsory national curriculum limit parental choice?

  -surely there's contradiction between New Right's support of parental choice & arguing for state imposed national curriculum on all schools?
• Marxists criticism


  -shared national culture is the culture of the dominant ruling class

  -devaluing the culture of working class & ethnic minorities