In the last three decennia, many governments have introduced market mechanisms in
education. They have done so by enhancing parental choice and encouraging school …

This article describes and critically analyzes how sociologists in England have studied
racial/ethnic inequalities in secondary education between 1980 and 2005. This study is …

Education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality but to sustain it at manageable
levels. This is the inescapable conclusion of the first major study of the English education …

What is the trouble with schools and why should we want to make 'school trouble'?
Schooling is implicated in the making of educational and social exclusions and inequalities …

This book looks inside the school to examine how every-day, school-level processes act to
place particular students' outside'the educational endeavour and argues for new strategies …

Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers-associated with social
problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness-as bad …

This paper examines how an ongoing educational panic over failing boys has contributed to
a new celebratory discourse about successful girls. Rather than conceive of this shift as an …

Providing fresh insights and understandings about educationally 'successful'minority ethnic
pupils, this book examines the views, identities and educational experiences of those pupils …

In recent years there has been growing concern over the pervasive disparities in academic
achievement that are highly influenced by ethnicity, class and gender. Specifically, within the …

This paper draws on interview data gathered from a broader study concerned with
examining issues of social justice, cultural diversity and schooling. The focus is on five …