Poorest kids denied access to best schools
The Sutton Trust today highlighted something that won’t get much air time this election. Poorer kids are being excluded from our best state schools.
The Sutton Trust today highlighted something that won’t get much air time this election. Poorer kids are being excluded from our best state schools.
With the publication of the latest league tables, as usual, the NUT have welcomed impressive results, while the right-wing press bemoan “falling standards”.
Ed Balls’ plans to allow parents to take schools to court when discipline is poor are right to identify behaviour as a concern, but wrong to use the legal system to deal with it.
Melanie Phillips’ support for Michael Gove in the Mail today is confused. While she is right to point out that more pupils should leave school able to read, write and count, she is wrong to assume that the Conservative’s solutions will give us the outcomes we need.