The best, the worst and the average: secondary school choice and education performance in East London.

Autor/inn/en	Butler, Tim; Hamnett, Chris; Ramsden, Mark
Titel	The best, the worst and the average: secondary school choice and education performance in East London.
Quelle	In: Journal of education policy, 22 (2007) 1, S. 7-29Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939; 1464-5106
DOI	10.1080/02680930601065718
Schlagwörter	Zukunftsorientierung; Forschung; Subjektivität; Soziale Herkunft; Schulwahl; Schulbezirk; Wohnortnahe Schule; Sekundarschule; Schulerfolg; Schulleistung; Demografische Daten; Soziale Schicht; Soziologie; Elternwille; Europa; Großbritannien; London
Abstract	In this paper [the authors] investigate whether the distance between school and the pupil's home is related to social background in a six borough area of East London. Also investigated is the extent to which schools in the area perform in line with expectations on the basis of the social composition of their intake. The research involves analysis of the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) to which geodemographic codes supplied by Experian have been attached. [They] demonstrate that the six schools in the area which achieved the highest average points score at GCSE recruit pupils widely from within the area (and to a lesser extent outside), whilst the lowest performing six schools recruit from much more narrowly defined catchment areas. In terms of school performance, [is shown] that whilst we might expect schools to perform better as they become more distant from inner East London and nearer to the M25, this is not necessarily the case. In [the] conclusions [they] argue that these data support the claims made on the basis of ethnographic data about the class nature of school selection and parental choice. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2008/1