Staying Ahead

The Middle Class and School Reform in England and Wales

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2559778
AutoresAlan C Kerckhoff (autor de correspondencia), Ken Fogelman, Jennifer Manlove (0000-0002-6474-7563)
Año1997
Volumen70
Número1
Páginas19
Fecha de publicación1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2673190
OpenAlexW2051615967
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas2

This article analyzes the reform in England and Wales that changed the secondary school system from a selective type (with grammar and secondary modern schools) to a comprehensive type during the period 1965-74. It presents evidence of two possible middle-class tactics : resistance to the reform and using the reform to protect the middle-class advantage. Resistance took the forms of keeping grammar schools from being transformed into comprehensives and maintaining high middle-class enrollments in grammar schools and in private schools. Organizing the comprehensive system to the advantage of the middle class involved establishing some comprehensives without sixth forms and making it less likely that middle-class children would attend them. Enrollment patterns of a national sample are used to show how the middle class retained an advantage even as the types of schools were being changed

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