Anne Mcelvoy

Opportunity has stopped knocking: who will be its new champion?

Anne McElvoy says that the decline of social mobility is a modern scandal and should be the great battleground of post-Blair politics. The answer used to be grammar schools: now it lies in radical educational diversity

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