Trading in Futures
Subtitle: Why Markets in Education Don't Work
Contributors: David Hughes (Editor); Hugh Lauder (Editor); Sue Watson (Editor); Martin Thrupp (Editor); Rob Strathdee (Editor); Ibrahim Simiyu (Editor); Ann Dupuis (Editor); Jim McGlinn (Editor); Jennie Hamlin (Editor)
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780335202775
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Secondary schools; Administration - General; Educational Policy & Reform; Funding; Education / Teaching; Education; Finance; Free markets; Longitudinal studies; New Zealand; School choice; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: Education is seen throughout the developed world as the royal road to economic competitiveness in the twenty-first century.
Description: "This book shows that the faith in educational markets is misplaced. Throughout the English speaking world, and now Western Europe and parts of East Asia, parental choice and educational markets are being seen by politicians and policy advisors as the panacea to problems of low educational standards and social exclusion. This book is the first to systematically test the key assumptions underlying the faith in markets by linking an analysis of parental choice to flows of students between schools and their impact on school effectiveness. The results of this study suggest that the ability to realize choices is dependent on social class, gender and ethnicity and that this can have a negative impact on some schools' performance. Rather than raising standards the impact of markets is to polarize them, leading to an impoverished education for many students." "This book will be vital reading for students of educational policy, sociology of education and school effectiveness and improvement, as well as educational researchers, academics and policy makers."--Jacket.