The Economist:
Education: The road to London
1 October 2016
According to a report last year by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the London School of Economics, one-sixth of the improvement in central London schools was the result of growing numbers of ethnic minority children, who everywhere in Britain tend to do better in exams and improve more while in school than white pupils. Some also suggest that inner London's startling gentrification has played a role, attracting better teachers to the capital and pushing out poor families, whose children tend to be less swotty.
This article was published in The Economist on October 1, 2016
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Related publications
Understanding the improved performance of disadvantaged pupils in London, Jo Blanden, Ellen Greaves, Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan and Luke Sibieta, CASE Working Paper No.21, September 2015
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Jo Blanden webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage
Jo Blanden CEP publications webpage