New Labour policies

• The policies of New Labour was to reduce inequality and marketise by providing better choice and diversity
• Education Action Zones would provide deprived areas with extra funding/recourses for education
• Education Action Zones impacted people as it didn't really tackle the problem and any investment without local consultation can fail
• Education Maintenance Allowance gave working class pupils up to 30 quid a week for attending every single day of school
• The impact of Education Maintenance Allowance was it lead to many unmotivated pupils in the classroom
• Education Maintenance Allowance was supported by Sugarman
• National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies enforced a certain number of hours of the areas in school
• National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies was not an issue for all schools they were enforced at, and wasn't compulsory for all schools
• Reduced class sizes in Primary schools set the limit of class sizes to 30 pupils to ensure more individual teacher attention
• Reduced class sizes in Primary Schools would impact secondary school class sizes negatively
• Reduced class sizes in Primary Schools has since been scrapped
• Raised the school leaving age meant all children stayed in education longer to eradicate the emerging issue of not in education, employment or training groups (NEET)
• Raising the school leaving age didn't address the issues of truancy and anti-social behaviour and didn't make it clear if parents were responsible to monitor it or not
• The issue with policies to reduce inequality is they are very expensive
• The introduction of academies and specialist schools were both marketisation policies of the New Labour Government
• Academies were schools that were failing could opt out of LEAs and become partially/entirely funded by businesses
• Academies were very rare in New Labour
• the impact of the introduction of Academies was businesses may have a working model but could they work in schools
• Specialist schools would specialise in certain areas giving better choice to parents
• The impact of specialist schools was they preform better at GCSEs and narrow the gap of boys and girls, also they received additional funding, which could explain this
• Marxists are critical of marketisation because it gave even more power to the bourgeoise
• <EVAL> New Labour Policies

  -Gap of working and middle class still exists

  -Private schools still exist

  -Gillborn/Youdell found low ability streams still exist

  -Test focused education