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Educational inequality is not an unfortunate inescapable by-product of poverty, but the predictable outcome of long-standing policy failure. Combining rigorous critique with cautious optimism, this timely book identifies the political, fiscal and educational pathways through which entrenched inequalities can finally be challenged.
Price: $127.95
Pages: 192
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date:
01 December 2026
ISBN: 9781447380221
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Poverty and precarity, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, Educational strategies and policy: inclusion, Age groups: children
Carl Parsons is Emeritus Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, where he was previously Head of Department of Educational Research.
Introduction
1. The Wonderful World of Modern Childhood
2. Neoliberal State Education in the 21st Century
3. Schools, Opportunities, Equalities and ‘Levelling Up’
4. Poverty Rules: The Parameters and Persistence of Inequality
5. Behind Every Great Fortune
6. The Elites Make the Rules
7. How Inordinate Levels of Inequality are Sustained – and Can Be Reduced
8. The United Kingdom - Humanity, Morality and Equality: The Hope