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- Title
STANDARDS IN ENGLISH EDUCATION: AN ENDURING HISTORICAL ISSUE.
- Authors
Crook, David
- Abstract
This article closely examines the development of education in England, taking special account of educational standards - of the official measurable kind, but also the perceived kind - in the various sectors of education. It argues that, today, and in the past, the 'problems' associated with education standards mostly relate to a 'long tail' of underperforming schools serving urban areas and attended by relatively underprivileged children. At the other end of the scale, it is suggested that England's leading schools, both in the public and private sectors, remain the subject of admiration. The same remains true of England's leading, and typically oldest, universities, which occupy a more privileged position than institutions chartered in the relatively recent past. The article presents a story of persistent unequal educational opportunities over time, which, worryingly, does not seem to be improving in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; EDUCATIONAL standards; EDUCATION; EDUCATION policy; EDUCATIONAL planning; EDUCATIONAL change; FINISHING schools; SCHOOL centralization; INSPECTORATE of Schools (England); NATIONAL curriculum; COMMUNITY schools
- Publication
Spanish Journal of Comparative Education / Revista Española de Educación Comparada, 2011, Issue 18, p61
- ISSN
1137-8654
- Publication type
Article