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What is a child from a working class background less likely to do

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  • be in nursery/ preschool/ playgroup
  • leave school with 5 or more A*-C (9-4) grades at GCSE
  • progress to university
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What is a child from a working class background more likely to do

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  • start school unable to read
  • fall behind in core skills such as numeracy reading and writing
  • suffer mental health problems/ illness
  • be placed in lower sets
  • study vocational subjects
  • achieve lower scores in SATs and GCSEs
  • attend a failing school
  • have a shorter educational career
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What statistics are available to prove that middle class children do better than working class pupils in educational achievement

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  • 2-3 times more likely to gain good grades at GCSE
  • 35% eligible for FSM gained 5+ 9-5 grades while 63% of pupils from wealthier backgrounds did in 2015
  • middle class children occupy most university places and have longer educational careers than the working class
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What did Perry and Francis (2010) conclude on their research on differences in educational achievement

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  • social class is the strongest predictor of educational achievement
  • the gap between educational achievement between the in the UK is the largest of the developed world
  • there is a barrier between meritocracy and social mobility
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What do Perry and Francis not that Micheal Gove’s comment “rich, thick kids” do better than “poor, clever kids”

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  • there is a clear connection between poverty and educational underachievement
  • this connection causes problems for the notion of a meritocratic and fair society
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What did research by the National Equality Panel (2010) highlight

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  • British children’s educational attainment is overwhelmingly linked to parental occupation/income/qualifications
  • by age 3 poor children are 1 year behind their richer counterparts
  • 50% of children enter primary with no language or communication skills
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List possible reasons for the social class gap

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  • attitudes of the teacher towards the children
  • amount of disposable income available to stop distance from being a barrier to education
  • class sets cause teacher expectations to differ thus different teaching styles emerge from expectations
  • harder to concentrate on am empty stomach or if you must worry about things at home
  • personal attitudes to school, may have high aspirations but that may be clamped due to lack of financing
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From what point did girls start outperforming girls within education

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From late 1990s before then boys outperformed girls

9
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Gender- what did a national survey of 6,953 children show

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Girls scored higher in all tests