New Right educational policy emphasizes which measure?

New Right educational policy emphasizes which measure?

• A. Government can't meet local needs
• B. Parents need more of a say
• C. Government unable to provide the best education for children
• D. Competition should be created between schools to encourage harder working/better teaching

Answer: (D)

The main idea is that schooling should operate like a market, with competition driving improvement. New Right thinking argues that schools perform better when they must compete for pupils and funding, so parents gain real choice and schools must attract students by offering higher quality teaching. League tables and parental choice are tools to reveal performance and create market pressure, pushing schools to raise standards and be more efficient to avoid losing families to better-performing rivals. This emphasis on competition as the mechanism for improvement contrasts with more centralized or state-led approaches, which the New Right critiques as less effective at delivering high-quality education.

The main idea is that schooling should operate like a market, with competition driving improvement. New Right thinking argues that schools perform better when they must compete for pupils and funding, so parents gain real choice and schools must attract students by offering higher quality teaching. League tables and parental choice are tools to reveal performance and create market pressure, pushing schools to raise standards and be more efficient to avoid losing families to better-performing rivals. This emphasis on competition as the mechanism for improvement contrasts with more centralized or state-led approaches, which the New Right critiques as less effective at delivering high-quality education.