Right Turn: The Conservative Revolution in EducationIt illumines the ideas that underlie their nimble campaign; heir tenets of parent power, selection, accountability, the national curriculum. Their generalship is too easily dismissed as pragmatic and hasty, and this book shows the strategic sureness and deft tactics involved in breaking the long truce of consensus politics. |
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Tradition and the market | 32 |
Conservative modernization | 79 |
All for the best? | 117 |
Copyright | |
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academic achievement action Adam Smith Institute alternative anti-racism anti-racist areas argument attitudes Baker Black Papers Brent Britain British Burnage campaign central centre claim concern Conservatism Conservative policy Conservative programme councils create critical critique culture curricular demands democracy economic education policy Education Reform effects English equal opportunity ethnic minority experience free market groups Hilary Wainwright Honeyford ideas ideology ILEA important individual industry inequality influence initiative intellectual interests involved issues Keith Joseph Kenneth Baker kind knowledge Labour Party language learning Marenbon militancy modernization national curriculum organized parents particular political popular practical present principles problems progressivism questions racism radical relations relevant response right-wing Roger Scruton Salisbury Review Scruton sector selection sense skills social social democracy society standards strategy subsidized housing market teachers teaching tendencies Thatcher themes Tory trade union tradition TVEI understanding values working-class