Clifton J and Cook W (2012) A long division: Closing the attainment gap in England's secondary schools, London: IPPR. http://www.ippr.org/publication/55/9585/a-long- division-closing-the-attainment-gap-in-englands-secondary-schoolsJ. Clifton and W. Cook, A long division: Closing the ...
The report,Improving outcomes for young people through school education,says: “The poverty-related attainment gap remains wide and inequalities have been exacerbated by Covid-19. Progress on closing the gap has been limited and falls short of the Scottish government’s aims. Improvement needs to ...
This report outlines what teachers, schools, local and national government and other education providers can do to close the education attainment gap associated with poverty in Scotland. It looks at attempts that have been made to tackle the issue and considers the evidence for which ones have pro...
The sheer scale of the challenge and the sustained effort required if the Scottish government wants to close the“poverty-related attainment gap”has been highlighted as a barrier to progress by Scottish local authorities. The Scottish government has invested £500 million in its bid to close the...
Many studies have shown that mentoring is a valuable tool for closing the college attainment gap. This is especially true for underserved, first-generation students (Bernier et al.2005; Bowers2019; Brown et al.2021; Coles2011; Goff2011; Lyons et al.2019; MENTOR2009,2016; Rhodes and DuBois200...
03/063 Measuring Pupil Attainment in English Secondary Schools: A Preliminary Analysis The purpose of this paper is to examine patterns of attainment of boys and girls at different stages of their secondary education and to investigate factors that may affect pupil outcomes. We employ a national ...
SAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, EnglandMcCluskey G (2017) Closing the attainment gap in Scottish schools: Three challenges in an une- qual society. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 12: 24-35.McCluskey, G. (2017) Closing the attainment gap in ...
R. MuirC. WellingsClifton, J. and Cook, W., 2012. A long division: Closing the attainment gap in England's secondary schools. London: Institute for Public Policy Research. www.ippr.org/publications/a-long-division-closing-the-attainment-gap-in-englands- secondary-schools (Last accessed May...
Birmingham appeared to be closing the attainment gap last night, but more than half of its 16-year-olds still failed to achieve five or more good GCSE grades. Europe's biggest education authority said it believed 49 per cent of pupils hit the benchmark five A* to C or more mark -a ...
The attainment gap associated with socio-economic status is an international problem that is highly resistant to change. This conceptual paper critiques the drive by the Scottish Government to address the attainment gap through the Scottish Attainment Challenge and the National Improvement Framework. It ...