Thatcherism didn’t just crush the unions,it crushed a memoir – as the report that says working-class white children fade backwards at school provesThe report came couched in the usual language of inclusion, technocracy and what works”. deprived children are doing so badly at school that only one in five hits an international benchmark designed by the authors.
But the headline grabber in the paper from the liberal thinktank CentreForum concerns ethnicity: the serial losers after 28 years of marketisation, or testing,a centralised curriculum and decentralised control of schools are poor white kids.
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Source: theguardian.com