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1
Q

What did the 1944 education act introduce?

remember it as 3:3

A

• 3 things:

  • the tripartite system
  • the 11+
  • the leaving age of 15

• the tripartite system consisted of 3 types of schools:

  • grammar schools (seen as the best, m/c)
  • secondary modern schools (most people)
  • technical schools
2
Q

What did the introduction of comprehensive schools in 1965 do?

A

What?
• wanted to create equal opportunity
How?
• got rid of the 11+ so children are no longer labelled as failures for not passing it

(-) streaming still occurs, can still undergo ‘failure labelling’ without 11+

3
Q

What policies aimed to promote gender equality?

A
  • The 1988 National Curriculum - all students had equal entitlement to all subjects for the first time (girls did maths and science)
  • 1999 government gave grants to primary schools to hold extra writing classes for boys to push up SAT scores
  • 2005 breakthrough programme introduced mentoring, after-school classes etc to improve boys exam performance