School Admissions and Accountability
Planning, Choice or Chance?
Distributed for Policy Press at the University of Bristol
207 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2013
The processes for allocating places at secondary schools in England are always controversial. School Admissions and Accountability addresses issues relevant to school admissions over the past sixty years, exploring three primary ways it has been done: planning via local authorities, quasi-market mechanisms, and random allocation. Each approach is assessed on its own terms, but also examined via constitutional and legal analysis. The book shows how repeated failure to identify and pursue specific values for school admissions underlies questions regarding the fairness of the process. Interdisciplinary in approach, it makes the issue of school admissions relevant and accessible to a wide readership in education, social policy, and sociolegal studies.?
Contents
List of statutes
List of cases
List of abbreviations
Notes on authors
Acknowledgements
Preface
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
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