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Of course we all want to narrow the gap between disadvantaged children and others.
Even without the league table changes, the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others would still have grown.
A recent Ofsted report showed that the achievement gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is closing".
"Alongside our £2.5bn pupil premium, the result of these reforms is that the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is narrowing at primary and secondary level".
Academies have not been shown to promote improvement in headline grades, or reduce the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers".
"Over time we expect to see more pupils reach this new higher standard and the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers continuing to narrow".
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Alice Zhang and Catherine Hong's the Learning Project is addressing the systemic inequalities that create learning gaps between disadvantaged and privileged youth in Sydney, Australia's North Shore.
Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said the white paper did little to address the real issues facing education – teacher shortages, particularly in maths, English and science, a crisis in school places, a widening attainment gap between the disadvantaged and the rest, and exam chaos with the new SATs and GCSEs not yet finalised.
The data offers one bit of bad news as well: The graduation rate gap between economically disadvantaged students and all other students stayed the same or increased in more states than it decreased in the 2013-2014 year.
We were especially interested in whether the policy resulted in a narrowing of ECEC utilization gaps between socioeconomically disadvantaged and advantaged families.
Social segregation (between children of different classes and ethnic backgrounds) is much higher in selective areas than in other parts of the country, as are the gaps in outcomes between disadvantaged children and the rest.
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