Peter Hoskin

Stephen Pollard: Social mobility disappeared with the grammar schools

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I’d recommend you head over to Stephen’s blog, where he flags up his latest Times article: “Social Mobility disappeared with the grammar schools”.  It’s a great response to Brown’s speech yesterday.  But it should also be required reading for Ed Balls, who has an unfathomable aversion to some of our most successful academic institutions. 

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