1. What no Education Secretary Wants to Hear:
Uncomfortable Propositions about Education Policy and Educational Inequality
Ruth Lupton
Manchester Institute of Education
Policy Week 2014

2. 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

3. Radical Change is Unlikely
Whoever is elected on May 22nd will:
Focus on bringing up the bottom
Work principally through “add-ons”

4. Distribution of GCSE capped point scores, maintained schools 2008, 2013
Source: National Pupil Database.
Calculations by P.Obolenskaya and S.Thomson for forthcoming publication.
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