School Admissions and Accountability: Planning, Choice or Chance?

ISBN-13: 9781447306221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

Mike Feintuck; Roz Stevens

Opis

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.?

Spis treści

The admissions question; The changing policy context; The rise and fall of the planning model; Admissions in a quasi-market: policy developments 1988-2012; The realities of choice and accountability in the quasi-market; Admission by lottery; Synthesis and conclusions.