Geoff Whitty and Emma Wisby. In her first major foray into domestic policy as Prime Minister, Theresa May has offered us more grammar schools. Not a return to the selective system of education that existed in England prior to the…
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Grammar schools: the rise and fall of ‘evidence-informed policy’?
Tagged with: Emma Wisby, Geoff Whitty, grammar schools, selective education, social mobility
Posted in Education policy, Evidence-based policy
Posted in Education policy, Evidence-based policy
Social mobility, education and income inequality: an overview in five graphs
Lee Elliot Major and John Jerrim. The study of education inequality and social mobility increasingly feels like a small world. The British Prime Minister David Cameron hopes for improved educational opportunities for disadvantaged children. President Barack Obama has put…
Tagged with: John Jerrim, Lee Elliot Major, social mobility, Sutton Trust
Posted in Evidence-based policy, International comparisons, Social sciences and social policy
Posted in Evidence-based policy, International comparisons, Social sciences and social policy
Selection at 11 – a very English debate
Chris Husbands Originally posted on SecEd It is a persistent undercurrent in English educational debate, but it is peculiarly English: should academic selection at the age of 11 be restored? Boris Johnson, perhaps in response to perceived UKIP pressure, has declared…
Tagged with: grammar schools, social class, social mobility, testing
Posted in Chris Husbands, Education policy, eleven-plus
Posted in Chris Husbands, Education policy, eleven-plus
Parents’ fortunes matter for cognitive development of 11-year-olds
Lucinda Platt, Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of Education and Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at London School of Economics and Political Science Originally posted on The Conversation As they reach the end of primary school, the UK’s children…
Tagged with: cognitive development, poverty, social class, social mobility, well-being
Posted in Childhood & early education, Education policy, learning, Social sciences and social policy
Posted in Childhood & early education, Education policy, learning, Social sciences and social policy
Let’s replace our Fortnum’s v Walmart system with a John Lewis model of schooling
Sandra Leaton Gray Last week, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published an analysis of fair opportunities for pupils (PDF). Andreas Schleicher, its Special Adviser for Education, has said that social division represents a long term issue for the…
Tagged with: community schools, Education policy, free school meals, OECD, Sandra Leaton Gray, Schools, social division, social mobility
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