... a key aspect in the formulation of the ERA after 1988, and in order to analyse education policymaking from the passage of the ERA it is important to explain the importance of the ERA, analyse its costs and benefits, comment on the review of the National Curriculum, and then pinpoint key stages from 1988 to 1997 to perceive which policymaking model(s) is/are best attributed. The key aspects of the National Curriculum included the issue that children would be able to move freely between different schools, as they would still be studying within a curricular context. The National Curriculum was therefore a guarantor of minimal provision strengthening the central curricular planning in schools. Another key aspect was the rising status of people involved within the National Curriculum, it was perceived that those involved in gaining required resources had greater status. The disadvantages involve issues that this was a record purely of ...

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