What no Education Secretary Wants to Hear: Uncomfortable Propositions about Education Policy and Educational Inequality Ruth Lupton Manchester Institute of Education Policy Week 2014
Radical Change is Possible Whoever is elected on May 22nd will: Make a commitment to reducing socio-economic inequalities Argue that this will create a more equal or more socially mobile society
Radical Change is Unlikely Whoever is elected on May 22nd will: Focus on bringing up the bottom Work principally through “add-ons”
Distribution of GCSE capped point scores, maintained schools 2008, 2013 Source: National Pupil Database. Calculations by P.Obolenskaya and S.Thomson for forthcoming publication. Not for circulation