marketisation reproducing inequality

what are 2 reasons related to marketisation that affect class achievement?

• streaming and the A-C economy

• Cream-skimming and silt sifting

• parental choice

explain streaming and the A-C economy?

• Gillborn and Youdell

• pupils are streamed through ‘ability’

• they link this to the publishing of league tables as these rank schools according to exam performance

• they need a good position to attract pupils/ funding

• this creates an ‘A-C economy’ (Educational Triage)

• the schools focus on the students who have the potential to get 5+

explain cream-skimming?

• Bartlett

Selecting higher ability pupils who gain the best results and cost less to teach

explain silt-shifting?

off-loading pupils with learning difficulties, who are expensive to teach and gain poorer results

explain parental choice?

• Gerwitz

study of 14 London secondary schools. Differences in parent’s economic and cultural capital leads to class differences. She identified three main types of parents:

• Privileged-skilled choosers

• Disconnected-local choosers

• Semi-skilled choosers

explain each of these

1. mainly professional m/c parents who know how school admissions work, time to visit school and research

2. w/c parents who were restricted by lack of cultural/economic capital. less confident and no time

3. ambitious for their children and therefore are frustrated that they lack cultural and economic capital