The Durham University study suggests that the attainment gap is larger than previously thoughtIndependently-educated pupils receive a boost equivalent to two years of additional schooling over state school pupils even after adjusting for social and economic bias,according to new research.
The study by Durham University – the most sophisticated of its type to date – found that independent school pupils in England gained an advantage worth nearly two-thirds of a GCSE grade higher once the effects of income, gender and prior attainment were stripped out.
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Source: theguardian.com