Indeed, the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is reduced to nearly zero for children in selective schools.
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Lib Dem education spokesman John Pugh said: “There is no such thing as inclusive grammar schools”.
And my fear is that by dividing children at 11 and by creating grammars and secondary moderns – because that’s what we’ll do – then we won’t be able to achieve that ambition.
It comes amid a row over the re-introduction of grammar schools.
She appears to have accepted the assumption that new grammar schools will improve social mobility, and help poorer children out of a cycle of perpetual disadvantage.
Because parents want choice for their children and there are some children who want and need to be academically stretched.
Although the policy was not mentioned in the Conservative Party manifesto a year ago, it is very popular among grassroots Tories.
New grammar schools will be opened across the country, Theresa May is confirming today.
Mr Timothy, Mrs May’s joint chief of staff in Number 10, is a former pupil at King Edward VI Aston.
Mrs May’s proposals sparked widespread concern among educationalists, unions and political opponents, as well as within the PM’s own party. “I strongly oppose 100 percent faith schools and will be voting against religious segregation of our children”, Conservative lawmaker Sarah Wollaston said on Twitter.
“I do think that academic excellence is important”.
According to the latest research, the majority of evidence points to grammar schools undermining social mobility.
Labour pledged to fight the plans “every step of the way”, while Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron predicted they would be defeated in the Lords.
“But already there has been a certain amount of selection going on in academies”.
And the general secretary of the A ssociation of Teachers and Lecturers, Dr Mary Bousted, said that evidence showed grammar schools “entrench inequality” throughout life, with the earnings gap between rich and poor more than £4-an-hour wider in areas with selective schools.
She went on to say a new grammar scheme would be “a 21st-century approach, precisely not one that’s rooted in the 1960s and 1970s”.
“So I want to relax the restrictions to stop selective schools from expanding, that deny parents the right to have a new selective school opened where they want one, that stop existing non-selective schools to become selective in the right circumstances and where there is demand”.
Stood under a new slogan of “a country that works for everyone”, she unveiled radical reform on private schools, universities and faith schools at the same time. “This government wants to focus on the future”.
By taking into account all of these factors, Cook was able to assess how pupils from performed in their GCSEs at selective and non-selective schools in relation to the socioeconomic status.
And in 1998 the Labour government banned any new selective schools from being established.
Potentially, yes. Theresa May has announced a £50m fund to allow existing grammar schools to expand.
The Economist argued that children from wealthier families also have an unfair advantage as they have the means to pay for extra tuition to prep for the entrance exams required to get into these schools.
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Justine Greening, the Education Secretary, will start the parliamentary process of lifting the ban on new grammars tomorrow when she introduces a green paper in the Commons proposing wide-reaching school changes.
