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Category Archives: Social Justice
Test scores and poverty – it doesn’t add up
England’s schools are drowning in data. Everybody is obsessed with accountability statistics, from Ofsted down to the school cat. This obsession with data distorts the way we look at pupils and their education. 300 spreadsheet columns running from A to … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability pressures, disadvantage, poverty, testing
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Grammar schools do not overcome disadvantage
New research has further undermined the Government’s case for expanding grammar schools. Stephen Gorard and Nadia Siddiqui (Durham University) have taken a closer look at the Department for Education’s data, revealing some neglected factors. It was already beyond doubt that children … Continue reading
Tower block tenants – the people who didn’t matter
The possibility of a tower block catching fire and burning out within the hour was a nightmare never to be contemplated. And now it has happened. Words cannot describe the experience of Grenfell Tower residents, living and dead, as they … Continue reading
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Tagged academies, accountability pressures, buildings, Ofsted, politicians, privatisation
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The crisis in secondary schools: where is it leading?
All kinds of schools in England are facing damaging budget cuts. Large meetings are being held all over the country where parents and teachers together are showing their opposition to Government cuts. Every concerned teacher or parent should join the … Continue reading
Who will vote for secondary moderns?
The elephant in the room of Theresa May’s plan to open more grammar schools is – secondary modern schools. Selecting a minority of children at age 11 for grammar schools means an inferior kind of school for those who failed. This is what … Continue reading
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Tagged comprehensive schools, grammar schools, secondary moderns
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New research exposes grammar school myth
New research by expert statisticians from the Universities of Bristol and Warwick, and the Institute of Education (UCL), demonstrates the dishonesty of Theresa May’s claim that grammar schools will benefit families that are “just about managing”. Simon Burgess, Claire Crawford and … Continue reading
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Tagged disadvantage, free schools, grammar, politicians
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Progress 8 another unfair measure
In a recent post Progress 8 – another attack on working-class schools we drew on Education Datalab research to show how this supposedly fair measure is weighted against schools serving poorer communities. This is because young people growing up in poverty … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Social Justice
Tagged accountability pressures, disadvantage, Ofsted, poverty
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Unequal lives – to university and beyond
This article is mainly based on new research by Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, John Micklewright and Anna Vignoles Considerable emphasis is placed on the Attainment Gap at age 16. New research has shown that this inequality continues into university and … Continue reading
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Tagged comprehensive schools, disadvantage, poverty, universities
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How Britain treats its children – a UN perspective
by Dr Pam Jarvis, Leeds Trinity University In June 2016, national news headlines were dominated by Britain’s referendum on whether to remain within or leave the European Union. Other news disappeared beneath this maelstrom, including a story which lays bare some … Continue reading
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Tagged British values, childhood, community, grammar schools, mental health, poverty, wellbeing
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Teaching assistants on strike
drawing on research by Professor Peter Blatchford, UCL Institute of Education Teaching assistants in Durham are about to go on strike because their employer Durham County Council has decided to reduce their pay to term time only – a pay … Continue reading
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