Educational attainment in the short and long term: was there an advantage to attending faith, private, and selective schools for pupils in the 1980s?
Educational attainment in the short and long term: was there an advantage to attending faith, private, and selective schools for pupils in the 1980s?
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Bibliography: Sullivan, A., Parsons, S., Green, F., Wiggins, R.D., Ploubidis, G., Huynh, T., 2018. Educational attainment in the short and long term: was there an advantage to attending faith, private, and selective schools for pupils in the 1980s? Oxford Review of Education 44, 806–822. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2018.1481378
Authors:: Alice Sullivan, Samantha Parsons, Francis Green, Richard D. Wiggins, George Ploubidis, Timmy Huynh
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First-page: 806
This paper asks whether private, selective, and faith schools in England and Wales in the 1980s provided an academic advantage to their pupils, both in the short and longer term. Using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we examine academic outcomes in compulsory schooling and further education, and the highest qualification gained by age 42. School sector differences are substantially attenuated by controlling for prior pupil characteristics. Nevertheless, a residual effect of private, grammar, and secondary modern schooling remains, both in the short and long term, controlling for both pupil and school characteristics. In the case of faith schools, however, the apparent advantage is restricted to the short term once pupil characteristics are controlled. A unique feature of our analysis is that we control for the individual’s faith of upbringing, which is important in reducing what could otherwise be seen as a distinctive Catholic school advantage.
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- & School sector differences are substantially attenuated by controlling for prior pupil characteristics. Nevertheless, a residual effect of private, grammar, and secondary modern schooling remains, both in the short and long term, controlling for both pupil and school characteristics. In the case of faith schools, however, the apparent advantage is restricted to the short term once pupil characteristics are controlled. A unique feature of our analysis is that we control for the individual’s faith of upbringing, which is important in reducing what could otherwise be seen as a distinctive Catholic school advantage. (p. 806)
- & In summary, our results show a consistent disadvantage for pupils who attended secondary modern schools, and a consistent advantage for pupils who attended private and grammar schools, across the outcomes of compulsory schooling, post-compulsory schooling, and in terms of the highest qualification achieved at any time up to mid-life. (p. 816)
- & One notable change since the 1970 cohort were at school is that faith schooling within the state sector was expanded under the ‘New Labour’ government elected in 1997, and extended beyond Christian and Jewish schools to schools of other Table 5. (Continued). Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 (0.02) (0.02) _cons 1.97*** 1.16*** 1.06*** (0.02) (0.10) (0.10) N 10,188 10,188 10,188 R2 0.06 0.26 0.26 Notes: Standard errors in parentheses. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001. 818 A. SULLIVAN ET AL (p. 818)
- & faiths (Gillard, 2011). Therefore, contemporary generations of British school children are more likely to experience faith schooling than the 1970 cohort were. (p. 819)