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Poorer pupils do worse at school – here’s how to reduce the attainment gap
17 July 2023
Stephen Gorard, writes for The Conversation on closing the attainment gap, specifically by looking at ‘spread(ing) out the most disadvantaged students between schools’ and better calibrating the funding to follow the most disadvantaged pupils.
Children living in relative poverty in England have worse average educational outcomes, including lower grades in exams, than other pupils. This situation is often referred to as the poverty attainment gap.
Stephen Gorard is the principal investigator on ERP project 'Investigating the recruitment and retention of ethnic minority teachers, and its relationship to school outcomes'.
Full story - https://theconversation.com/poorer-pupils-do-worse-at-school-heres-how-to-reduce-the-attainment-gap-205535
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