The New right is an idea of the conservatives, however both labour and conservatives have been influenced, they believe in meritocracy and competition. The principle of New Right thinking is the belief that the state cannot meet people’s needs and that people are best left to meet their own needs and that people are best left to meet their own needs through the free market. Chubb and Moe made a survey by asking the children’s parents, asking how the education system could be improved. They found that 5% of children from poorer family backgrounds do better in private education, with this they made the idea of marketization. They gave out the idea of vouchers, parents give the school a voucher with money for a term or a year.
Some people would argue that the New right is unfair to children in schools. The educational triage theory of Gilborn and Youdell say that all schools ration time, effort and resources by concentrating on pupils that are boarder line D/C grade and give less attention to the children of a capability of getting a high grade and ignore the children of no chance of getting a grade above a C grade. In many ways this unfair to students, even though a student is a B grade student, they might want to get extra help and effort to be put in to get an A or an A* to get a good position for college and universities, if teachers ignore the student or not give as much attention, they will not get the grade they want/need.
Supporters of the New Right agree that this is useful for the future workforce. They think building a competitive and hardworking people will increase the employability chances.