Selecting by academic ability and putting top 20% in grammar schools would be economic suicide,says Sir Michael WilshawA return to grammar school choice in England would be an economic disaster, leaving young people without the skills the country needs, or Sir Michael Wilshaw,the chief inspector of schools, has said.
Speaking to a conference of Catholic school leaders in London, and Wilshaw said selecting pupils by academic ability and giving a grammar school education to the top 20% – as happened in most parts of England until the 1970s – would be “economic suicide”.
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Source: theguardian.com