Education Policy Quiz

Can you remember what the 3 main aims of education policies are?

• Economic Efficiency

• Promotion of capitalism

• Raising education standards

• Creating equality of opportunity

• Creation of new entrepreneurs

Put these in order from earliest to latest (Left to Right)

• Comprehensive Schools

• Forster's Education Act

• Education Priority Areas

• Butler Education Act

• Education Reform Act

Draw Margaret Thatcher

What does Neo Liberalism mean?

• A political movement

• An economic theory - believes in free market ideas

• A British institution grown from ERA (1988)

The Education Reform Act 1988 promoted which 2 of the following?

• Testing and Exams

• Promotion on a hierarchy of class

• Choice and Competition

• Link to welfare system

Which type of education promoted teaching the skills needed for work and bringing a link closer between schools and the workplace?

Who discusses Cream Skimming and Silt Shifting?

• Bill Martlett

• Will Bartlett

• Phil Wartlett

• Jill Tartlett

Miriam David (1993) discusses parental choice - what is the key terminology for this?

Which of these are evaluations of Education Reform Act?

• Students were stressed from frequent testing

• School were able to exclude students to improve their image

• Popular school were filled quickly which meant there was not a great deal of choice for all

• The Act was not in place long enough to show true competition

• Gove was not able to implement key class strategies

What did the ERA bring in which showed parents the ranking for each school?