1. UK Education Policies and Achievement Gaps
Across the political spectrum, all parties agree that continuously raising educational standards is a must (Chitty, 2014:1). ... Both Thatcher and Reagan stressed the need for a 'laissez faire' approach to government, a major component of neoliberalism which roughly translates from French to English as 'let them be'. ... It is probably worth noting then that state intervention into schooling and efforts to minimise the achievement gap of differing social classes is not a neoliberal ideal. ...
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