Educational inequality
(Class, Gender and Ethnicity)
Social class and underachievement
Material explanations - (money) tutors, books, outings
(school and family), internet, type of school, stay on or not
Cultural explanations - parental expectations, reading to children,
less awareness of 'how school works', anti-school feeling,
hobbies/visits, language skills register, who you associate with
Schools - teachers treat WC/MC children differently, 'label' children,
self-fulfilling prophecy, influence of peers anti-school subculture
Gender
Girls continue to outperform
boys at all levels of education
In England for Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 3 girls
scored consistently higher than boys in 2007
Figures from UCAS show that there are more women
than men entering full-time undergraduate courses
Teachers expectations
Feminism
Opportunities
Ethnicity
A persons ethnicity is likely to affect how many
GCSEs they get and at what grades, whether a
person continues into further and higher education
and even their chances of being excluded