School Admissions and Accountability
Planning, Choice or Chance?
Distributed for Policy Press at the University of Bristol
“This timely and original book examines crucial issues surrounding secondary schools admissions policies and the extent to which they are socially just. Admissions policy has become a new battleground in education and the book reviews the legal and political factors and the values underpinning past and current policy. Discussion of issues relating to social justice, and equality of worth, opportunity and outcome lead to a conclusion that the current system continues to produce a hierarchy of successful and less successful schools, which neither increases social mobility nor is socially just.”
List of cases
List of abbreviations
Notes on authors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. The admissions question
2. The changing policy context
3. The rise and fall of the planning model
4. Admissions in a quasi-market system: policy developments 1988 to 2012
5. The realities of choice and accountability in the quasi-market
6. Admissions by lottery
7. Conclusions
References
Index
Education: Pre-School, Elementary and Secondary Education
Sociology: General Sociology
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