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Poverty of opportunity?

2 August 2016

Education is not just a vital cornerstone of our culture and economy, it is also potentially one of the great social levellers. However rich or poor our parents, however supportive or dysfunctional our families, a high-quality education ought to give each of us the opportunity to live a fulfilling life limited only by our own talents and efforts rather than by the circumstances of our birth. Or so the theory goes. In this post we look at the question of economic deprivation among children, and in particular how different types of schools either enable or hinder opportunities for those from poorer families. ... The rest of this post looks at these trends in more detail. You may also be interested to see other related work such as the Sutton Trust's recent analysis of social selection in primary schools, Ofsted's 2013 report on underachievement among poor pupils, and the LSE's 2012 research into the effects of schools on house prices.

This article was published online by the SchoolDash blog on August 2, 2016
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CEP research on Twitter
Lilian Greenwood @LilianGreenwood (Labour MP for Nottingham)
RT @emranmian: On grammar schools and social mobility ... @SchoolDash work from last week is pretty damning

Related publications
The link between schools and house prices is now an established fact, Stephen Gibbons, LSE British Politics and Policy blog, September 25, 2012
Big ideas: valuing schooling through house prices, Stephen Gibbons. Article in CentrePiece Volume 17, Issue 2, Autumn 2012
Houses and Schools: Valuation of School Quality through the Housing Market, EALE 2010 Pressidential Address, Stephen Machin, Centre for Economic Performance Occasional Paper No.29, May 2011

Related links
Stephen Gibbons webpage
Urban Programme webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage

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