Truancy, delinquency and school-exclusion pose major challenges to the drive to promote social inclusion and raise standards for all. Many children who are truants or become excluded from school have inherited a sense of ‘educational alienation’ from their parents, whose own negative perceptions…
This book shows that the faith in educational markets is misplaced. Throughout the English speaking world and now Western Europe and parts of East Asia parental choice and educational markets are being seen by politicians and policy advisors as the panacea to problems of low educational standards an…
Does an effective school really come about through the actions of teachers and school leaders, or does it also require an advantaged student intake?This question reflects a longstanding research debate about whether or not the social class mix of a school's student intake has much effect on individu…
