The New Right on Education

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What do Neoliberals think the government should encourage?
Competition, privatisation and deregulation
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What do the New Right favour in terms of education?
The marketisation of education
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Why do the New Right believe that education is not performing its functions?
Because it is run by the state
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Why will marketisation drive the education standard up?
It will encourage competition and empower consumers so that schools become more efficient at meeting their needs
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According to Chubb and Moe, why has education in the United States failed?
Because it has not created equal opportunity and fails to produce workers with the skills needed by the economy
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What is Chubb and Moe’s solution to the failing education system in America?
Introduce a market voucher system
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How much better do pupils from low-income families perform in private schools compared to state schools?
Consistently about 5%
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What, in the New Right’s opinion, are the two roles of the state?
Imposing a framework on schools and ensuring they transmit a shared culture
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Why do the New Right oppose multicultural education?
Because they believe education should affirm the national identity
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Who argues that competition between schools only benefits the middle class?
Gewirtz and Ball
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How do Marxists criticise the New Right perspective on education?
They argue that education imposes the culture of the dominant ruling class, therefore devaluing the culture of the working class and ethnic minorities
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What do the New Right favour in terms of education?

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The marketisation of education

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Why will marketisation drive the education standard up?

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According to Chubb and Moe, why has education in the United States failed?

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