Gove says the pupil premium, championed by Nick Clegg, has been integral to tackling social mobility.
There is, on the surface, no issue on which consensus happily gathers more quickly than tackling social mobility.
One way economists tackle social mobility is by looking at data sets that follow a group of people over their entire lives, tracking where they start out in the overall income distribution and where they end up.
Nick Clegg marked 100 days of coalition government today with an attempt to shift the political agenda beyond the negative issue of public service cuts and onto more positive territory such as tackling social mobility.
The board of the Social Mobility Commission which includes two former cabinet ministers — one Tory and one Labour — resigned after concluding that the government's focus on Brexit means that its ability to tackle social mobility "is zero".
Clegg made it clear that tackling social mobility was so important that he would place his educational reforms above the Lib Dems' usual demand for a change in the voting system in the event of a hung parliament in which they would hold the balance of power.
Now tackling relative mobility as important as you argue if you want to avoid the development of a rigid class structure in the United States, but it's also important for one issue that you don't discuss quite as much in the book racial inequality, because I think we're unlikely to eliminate racial inequality if we don't act also as having two questions of relative mobility.
In a clear swipe at May, they say: "Those championing selection as the silver bullet for tackling social mobility, or as the panacea for creating good new school places, are misguided". They add: "While there are positive moves in other areas, such as the new T-levels and opportunity areas, all this good work will be squeezed out by an endless debate about more selection.
The Labour leader told a conference organised by the Sutton Trust, which promotes opportunities for young people from underprivileged backgrounds, that "tackling social mobility is a huge mountain to climb and the last Labour government took some important steps".
The aim of the collaborative project is to share data and expertise, including by tapping into London's startup ecosystem, to land on new ideas for tackling urban mobility issues — from traffic jams to awful air quality.
"As part of this we've just named a new research school to provide resources for teachers in Derby to tackle social mobility in their classrooms, and we have given over £1m of growth funding to enable eight Multi Academy Trusts to expand their reach across Derby's academies," it said.
