Reviews for Geography of the 'New' Education Market: Secondary School Choice in England and Wales

The average rating for Geography of the 'New' Education Market: Secondary School Choice in England and Wales based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-15 00:00:00 Christopher Gibson There is some valuable material here, but it didn't feel like there was a lot of clear analysis or attempt to situate most of the studies within a broader common framework of what to do about the rise of the neoliberal university. It wasn't entirely the point of the collection, I admit, but it was certainly part of the point of some of the essays within it. Oftentimes the essays seemed to stop short of deeper analysis, pointing out a trend or another without connecting it to something larger.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-03-13 00:00:00 Julia Cole Let me start by saying I am a professional who works in Higher Education and I genuinely enjoy reading about Higher Ed for fun. However, this book was absolutely brutal to get through. There was no new or unexpected research in this work. The entirety could simply be summed up like this: as a whole, Yale students generally come from higher SES and more privileged backgrounds than other non-Ivy college students. Another gripe I had were the quotes from the students at both Yale and Southern. Did Mullen purposefully only include the most mindless, grammatically incorrect quotes from these students?! All of the "like" and "ya know" talk really distracted the reader. These students are Ivy League! There must be better quotes to feature in all of her interview recordings than the quotes she chose!