'In spite of the opposition from many educators concerned about questions of equity and social justice, the proposition that schools should compete for students in an edcuational marketplace and the alted assertion that individuals (or their parents) should have greater freedom to choose the kind of education they will recieve, have become the basis of widespread educational reform'
[Olssen, 2004]
[Olssen, 2004]
'Among low attaining children, certain groups are disproportionately represented: children from poor families, White working class boys, looked after children children with disabilities, children from particular minority ethnic backgrounds, and children of refugees and Gypsy/Roma or Travellers.' [Alexander, 2010]