Trading In Futures
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 1999
205 pages
978-0-335-23207-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first to systematically test the key assumptions underlying politicians' faith in educational markets. It links 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.
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Sue Watson | Sletske Waslander | Martin Strathdee
TRADING IN FUTURES
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05/1999
Open University Press
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The magic of the market?
- Chapter 2: Revealing the magician's tricks: the hidden hand of political conflict
- Chapter 3: Structuring the market: global orthodoxies, local politics
- Chapter 4: Chocie and power in the market
- Chapter 5: The hidden injuries of school choice
- Chapter 6: Polarizing intakens: the impact of educational competition
- Chapter 7: The impact of markets on school performance
- Chapter 8: Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
