Product Description: It is often assumed that for middle class and academically able children, schooling is a straightforward process that leads to academic success, higher education and entry into middle class occupations. However this publication shows these relationships to be complex and often uncertain...read more

Product Description: This work, based on a research review undertaken for the Social Exclusion Unit, examines evidence on the nature of the connection between educational attainment and socio-economic conditions.

Product Description: * What is the background to and significance of policies of devolution and choice in education that are currently fashionable in many parts of the world?* What has been the actual impact of these policies on school managers, teachers, students and local communities?* How might equity be preserved in systems of education where increased responsibility is delegated to the level of the school?This book examines recent school reforms in England and Wales, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Prompted by the increasing number of attempts in various parts of the world to restructure and deregulate state schooling, this book sets out what we know of the theory and practice of devolved systems and considers the reasons for this policy shift and its consequences for efficiency, effectiveness, and equity within educational systems...read more

Product Description: Secondary education has seen a great expansion of pastoral care. This book looks at the history and discourse of pastoral care, including its limits and possibilities, and provides an empirically-based analysis of pastoral care in the comprehensive school...read more

Product Description: Beginning with an introduction to the concept of grant-maintained status and the debate surrounding the policy, this study draws on data and interviews with those involved in education in the UK, and includes comparisons with similar strategies in the USA, Europe and New Zealand...read more