Education Revision

2. The Butler Education Act 1944
5. allowing successful schools to recruit more pupils
6. Selecting higher ability pupils, who gain the best results and cost less to teach
14. factors within schools and the education system
16. Money problems in the family were a significant factor in younger children’s non attendance
17. found that teachers ‘cooled down’ black pupils when discussing careers & further education plans.
18. e.g. Operation Head Start
19. Different classes in different subjects based on ability.
22. Language used in working class homes is deficient.

1. Rosenthal and Jacobson
3. the National Curriculum is ‘Specifically British’ & focuses only on White culture
4. w/c parents less likely to support their child's intellectual development
7. allocating pupils to future work roles
8. invisible barrier stopping women getting top jobs
9. Still see the education system as patriarchal
10. The myth of cultural deprivation
11. "what will be, will be"
12. Argue that Asian families have a much more ‘Pro-School’ attitude than Black families.
13. gives schools the same amount of funding for each pupil.
15. close parallels between schooling and capitalist workplace
20. Gillborn and Youdell's battlefield analogy
21. Black girls rejecting labels