The Comprehensive System Study Guide With Complete Answers,
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What does comprehensive refer to? - correct answer Comprehensive refers to a non selective system where all children in the area attend the same type of secondary school
From when onwards was the compressive system introduced in many areas? - correct answer ...
What does comprehensive refer to? - correct answer Comprehensive refers to a
non selective system where all children in the area attend the same type of secondary school
From when onwards was the compressive system introduced in many areas? - correct answer
From 1965 onwards
What did the comprehensive system aim to do? - correct answer It aimed to
overcome the class divide of the tripartite system and make education more meritocratic
The policy was also aimed at reducing class inequalities as all children were meant to get equal
opportunities at their local schools (no middle class advantage).
What did the comprehensive system abolish? - correct answer No selection by
ability at age 11
It abolished the 11+ exam along with grammars and secondary moderns (3 types of secondary school),
to be replaced by comprehensive schools that all pupils within the area would attend
How did the policy aim at reducing class inequalities? - correct answer The policy
was also aimed at reducing class inequalities as all children were meant to get equal opportunities at
their local schools (no middle class advantage).
How do some argue that it did not reduce class inequalities? - correct answer There
is still some evidence of hidden or covert selection and streaming reproducing inequality
Who decided whether to turn schools into comprehensive schools? What did this result in? - correct
answer It was left to local education authorities to decide whether to go
comprehensive after 1965.
Not all did so, particularly where they were Conservative controlled.
As a result, the grammar-secondary modern divide still exists in many areas, and there are still 164
grammar schools remaining in England.
, What are LEAs? - correct answer Local education authorities
What is the functionalist view of comprehensive schools? - correct answer
Promotes social integration by bringing all social classes together
The system is meritocratic with no selection at age 11
What is the marxist view of comprehensive schools? - correct answer Not
meritocratic- reproduces inequality through streaming
Legitimates inequality by making unequal success appear fair
What compromises the compressive principle? - correct answer The continued
existence of a relatively small number of state grammar schools and private secondary schools still
compromise the comprehensive principle (as perhaps do some aspects of recent governments
'education policies).
How were comprehensive schools meant to have equality via streaming? - correct answer
More uncertainties arose as some educationalists emphasised that comprehensives should and would
rely more heavily on mixed ability teaching rather than relying on rigid streaming, banding or setting and
that, as well as providing a more effective academic education, they could also foster social cohesion
and reduce class antagonisms via the greater interaction of children from different social backgrounds.
Which parents were less likely to support the transition to comphrensive schools? - correct answer
The parents of children who had achieve grammar school places
What still happened despite the abolishment of selection by examination? - correct answer
Even within a local authority area which has abandoned selection by examination, there may be
considerable variation in the pupil intakes of different formally comprehensive schools.
What was the problem with the transition to comprehensive schools in terms of reputation? - correct
answer It may be that former grammar schools turned comprehensive may have
better academic reputations than former secondary moderns which turned comprehensive and are
therefore able to attract more pupils with higher measured ability.
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