Education and Social Justice: The Changing Composition of Schools and its Implications (University of Wales - Bangor History of Religion)

Contents......Page 8
Figures and Tables......Page 11
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
List of Abbreviations......Page 17
‘A Plague on All our Schools’......Page 18
An Alternative Account......Page 22
The Politician’s Error and Changes Over Time......Page 24
A Worked Example of Reanalysis......Page 30
Evidence for Increasing Segregation......Page 33
Another View of School Allocation......Page 38
The Smithfield Study in New Zealand......Page 42
Conclusion......Page 48
Methods Used to Investigate Segregation......Page 49
Segregation between Schools since 1988......Page 55
What is Driving this Process?......Page 72
Simpson’s Paradox......Page 74
Conclusions......Page 75
Failing and Falling Standards in England and Wales?......Page 78
Failure in Wales?......Page 81
Falling Standards?......Page 85
Problems of Assessment......Page 87
The Difficulties of International Comparisons......Page 89
Third International Mathematics and Science Study......Page 93
What Difference does a School Make?......Page 97
International Indicators......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 103
5. Investigating the Performance of National School Systems......Page 105
Wales and England......Page 106
Methods Used......Page 108
Re-evaluating the Welsh School Effect......Page 112
Results for the 1994 Local Education Authorities......Page 115
Results for the 1998 Unitary Authorities......Page 116
The Implications......Page 118
Best and Worst......Page 122
Grant-maintained and LEA-controlled......Page 125
Coeducation and Single-sex......Page 126
English- and Welsh-medium......Page 127
An Alternative Comparison of the Sectors......Page 129
Conclusion......Page 136
The Nature of the Intake at Welsh-medium Schools......Page 138
Method for Investigating Differences between Sectors......Page 141
The 1996 Model......Page 144
The 1998 Model......Page 147
The Implications......Page 150
Growing Gaps in Attainment......Page 155
An Alternative Interpretation of the Gaps......Page 160
Assessing the Polarization of Students......Page 167
Methods Used to Investigate the Gender Gap......Page 171
Subject-specific Findings......Page 176
Aggregate Findings......Page 186
Summary of Findings......Page 191
The Implications......Page 192
Was there a Golden Age?......Page 197
Plethora of Remedies......Page 198
Educational Research......Page 201
Problems that Remain......Page 205
Society is to Blame......Page 206
Conclusion......Page 212
Appendix A: Further Comments on the Smithfield Study......Page 214
Appendix B: Comparing Three Indices of Segregation......Page 218
Appendix C: Examining the Paradox of Achievement Gaps......Page 220
Appendix D: Subject Groupings......Page 231
Appendix E: Alternative Versions of the Achievement Gap......Page 233
Bibliography......Page 235
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