Ethnic Minorities Reject the Remote State
Opposition to the state provision of schooling is commonly seen as coming from middle-class parents who expect their chiren to be ‘achievers’ Roger Homan, Principal Lecturer in Education of Brighton Polytechnic, reveals how this offifude patronises workers and ethnic minorities alike, and examines their spontaneous efforts to provide independent independent education for their children
Race, the new right and state policy in Britain
Much has been written about the ‘New Right’ and ‘new’ racism. However, it is apparent that the content of current emphases ignores both the complexities of New Right’ ideology and its use of perspectives and attitudes from earlier periods. Indeed, it appears that ‘race’ is not, at least in practical terms, a leading feature of Thatcherite government and policy, despite certain well‐publicized instances and the rhetoric of critics of the ‘New Right’. Where there has been a clash of ideologies, it has been more at the level of the local state, particularly in the area of anti‐racist strategies. It is argued that opposition to certain of these strategies is aided by their inappropriateness for the nature of British society in the late 1980s.
Economies of scale in schooling
Abstract A model of optimal school size is developed which predicts that schools will minimize total costs by operating in a region of increasing returns to school inputs. Two sources of estimates of the economies of scale coefficient emerge from the optimal school size model, and two rich data sets are used to generate estimates of this coefficient. These estimates support the model and are shown to imply sizeable differences in the cost of schooling between urban and rural areas.