Focusing on low‐cost English‐medium schools, this article investigates whether the ideology of the transformative potential of English‐medium education squares with most people’s experiences of this education in urban India. It shows how such schools enable socioeconomic mobility among the middle classes while also creating new forms of inequality. It argues that a meaningful evaluation of education outcomes requires understanding students’ and their parents’ experiences of an education system and its impact on their lives.

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英语-媒介：印度班加罗尔的学校教育、社会流动和不平等

本文以低成本英语学校为中心，探讨英语教育变革潜力的意识形态是否与印度城市大多数人对这种教育的经历相吻合。它展示了这些学校如何促进中产阶级之间的社会经济流动，同时也创造了新的不平等形式。它认为，对教育成果进行有意义的评估需要了解学生及其父母对教育系统的体验及其对他们生活的影响。