This week, Lord Lingfield tabled a short debate in the House of Lords Grand Committee on the improvement of educational attainment of boys at state schools. Speaking in the debate,…
Funding formula ‘fails to address double disadvantage’ faced by poorer pupils
…EEF, said “While we welcome plans for a fair and transparent funding system, the government proposals do not do enough to recognise the double disadvantaged that pupils from poor homes…
Class-tracked
…to do more to tackle the “huge waste of talent”. He said: “It is staggering that at age 16 bright but poor pupils lag behind their rich classmates by almost…
Bright pupils from poor families can lag 3 years behind better-off peers
…study, said it was ‘staggering’ that these youngsters are so far behind, warning it is a ‘huge waste of talent’. It follows a pledge by Theresa May to help raise…
Down by a third, number of pupils aged 11 who reach target for three Rs
…third, results from this year’s tougher SATs tests show. Almost 200,000 children are in under-performing primary schools, the data reveals. In total, 665 mainstream English primaries fell below the Government’s…
Evaluating EasyPeasy
…jugular and designed a ‘Randomised Control Trial’ – considered to be the ‘gold standard’ for evaluation in social science and education, but also regarded as a particularly complicated method to…