If the government is serious about improving the life chances of poorer children, it should reconsider its plans for grammar schools, says the Education Policy Institute’s Natalie Perera.
Expanding grammar schools will benefit children in better off areas rather than increase opportunity for all, says the Lib Dem’s education spokesperson Layla Moran.
Jeremy Corbyn is to launch a national campaign against the government’s plans to expand the use of grammar schools after he was re-elected as Labour’s leader at the party’s conference on Saturday.
Prime minister Theresa May has today set out plans to expand the number of grammar schools as part of moves intended to boost the availability of good school places in England.
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said the success of schools in London “makes a mockery” of claims that increasing the number of grammar schools is key to improving attainment for disadvantaged...
