This book draws on empirical research conducted at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary academy in a large English city. The author explores how the heightened marketisation and centralisation of education instigated through academisation is reproducing raced, classed and gendered inequalities. Over half of England's secondary schools are now academies that receive funding directly from central government and operate as autonomous businesses. Academies' impact on achievement levels has been hotly debated, but the social and cultural changes prompted by this model have received less...