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Streaming and Setting in UK Primary Schools: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
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Hallam, Susan – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
There has been research on grouping pupils by ability for most of the twentieth century since Whipple carried out a study of the effects of special class placement on a group of high aptitude 5th and 6th graders in the USA in 1919. Since then hundreds of studies have been undertaken and there have been many literature reviews and syntheses of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ability Grouping, Grade 6, Foreign Countries
School Attendance and Attainment: Poor Attenders' Perceptions of Schoolwork and Parental Involvement in Their Education
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Sheppard, Anne – British Journal of Special Education, 2009
Because of established links with attainment, the UK government has, over the last ten years, developed policies to improve school attendance. Legislation now makes school attendance a parental responsibility. In the small-scale study reported in this article, Anne Sheppard, manager of an Education Welfare Service Team in North Yorkshire,…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Parent Participation, Attendance, Parent School Relationship
Research on the Intergenerational Links in the Every Child Matters Outcomes. Report to the Department of Children, Schools and Families. CEE Special Report 005
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Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard; Tominey, Emma – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2010
The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda was introduced in the UK, as a policy aiming to improve child outcomes along five broad areas. The categories are Be Healthy, Stay Safe, Enjoy and Achieve, Make a Positive Contribution and Achieve Economic Wellbeing. The objective therefore, is to move beyond the traditional focus on child academic outcomes, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Legislation, Well Being, Children
Interventions and Interrogations: An Analysis of Recent Policy Imperatives and Their Rationales in the Case of Home Education
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McIntyre-Bhatty, K. – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2007
During the last 2 years, Britain's Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has commissioned several pieces of research into various aspects of home education. These items of research have served to illustrate several of the most pressing local authority concerns with regard to the educational outcomes, socialisation and welfare of children…
Descriptors: Private Education, Home Schooling, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment
Who's Looking after Whom? The Education of Disaffected Children in Care
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Sutherland, Ingrid – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
The social inclusion of vulnerable children is high on the political agenda in Britain. With policy issues concerning children in care or so-called "looked after children" (LAC) at such a pivotal point, now is the time to ensure that the educational needs of these particularly vulnerable children and young people take centre stage. It…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Change, Public Policy, Educational Needs
Young Workers: Varieties of Experience.
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change