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Area of Science:

  • Sociology
  • Education Policy
  • Social Mobility Research

Background:

  • The transition from selective to comprehensive schooling in Great Britain has been debated regarding its impact on social mobility.
  • Previous analyses often focused narrowly on upward mobility for specific groups, overlooking broader effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of the school system shift on social mobility (class and income) in Great Britain.
  • To provide a comprehensive analysis of school system impacts on all children, not just those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • To compare comprehensive and selective school systems, including all school types within the selective system.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the National Child Development Study.
  • Employed matching techniques to differentiate between child-specific and school-specific effects on mobility.
  • Compared mobility chances across different school types (grammar, secondary modern, comprehensive) and origins.

Main Results:

  • Grammar schools did not increase upward mobility likelihood for low-origin children but facilitated greater movement if mobility occurred.
  • Grammar schools offered limited income mobility advantages to lower-income children, with no significant class mobility advantage over service-class children.
  • The selective system as a whole provided no overall mobility advantage; grammar school benefits were offset by secondary modern school disadvantages.

Conclusions:

  • Comprehensive schools provided comparable social and income mobility outcomes to the selective systems they replaced.
  • The school system structure itself, rather than selection, appears to be a key factor in social mobility.
  • Findings challenge the notion that selective schooling inherently enhances social mobility for all students.