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Direct linkGorard, Stephen; Smith, Emma – School Leadership and Management, 2004
'Underachievement' is now a widely used term in education policy and practice. It is used routinely to refer to nations, home nations and regions, to types and sectors of schooling, to physiological, ethnic and social groups, and to individuals. It has been used to mean simply low achievement, also lower achievement relative to another of these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Underachievement, Academic Failure, Student Characteristics
Peer reviewedGorard, Stephen; Taylor, Chris – School Leadership & Management, 2001
Examines the advantages and disadvantages of specialist schools in England. Concludes that specialist schools attain higher levels of student achievement at the cost of socioeconomic diversity, especially when these schools set their own admission criteria. Suggests ways for specialist schools to increase student diversity. (Contains 23…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cost Effectiveness, Diversity (Student), Economically Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedSalisbury, Jane; Rees, Gareth; Gorard, Stephen – School Leadership & Management, 1999
Considers various research projects attempting to explain examination outcome differences between boys and girls and describes policies to resolve the "problem." British girls have higher attainment levels in English, Welsh, languages, and humanities; no achievement gaps exist in other subjects. There are no convincing explanations or strategies.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English, Foreign Countries, Humanities
Peer reviewedGorard, Stephen – School Leadership & Management, 1999
Describes progress in researching the policy, processes, and impact of parental choice of (British) secondary schools since 1988. Captures varied perspectives, insights, and intellectual tensions. Parental choice may benefit choosers in relation to everyone else without necessarily improving standards overall. Researchers may be abandoning study…
Descriptors: Criteria, Educational Benefits, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Peer reviewedGorard, Stephen – School Leadership & Management, 1998
Examines factors influencing choice of a new school, using data from a large-scale study in Wales. The "domino effect" sometimes covers three generations; decisions made today reflect, but are not identical to, past decisions. Simple reproduction cannot explain this diversity. Consumer nostalgia may lead schools to conservatism and restorationism.…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Influences
Peer reviewedGorard, Stephen – School Leadership & Management, 1997
A study of 794 families in South Wales clearly suggests that parents' and children's reported roles in selecting a new school are susceptible to variations over time. A three-step model predicts that simply dividing families into "alert" and "inert,""disconnected" and "privileged," or "parent-centered" and "child-centered" cannot demystify the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence, Foreign Countries, Models
