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School choice `leads to unhappy pupils?
15 May 2018
Giving parents more choice over the type of school their children can attend raises academic attainment but leads to more unhappy pupils, researchers have found. This is because schools that face greater competition for pupils are more likely to adopt teaching methods which, although academically effective, are not necessarily inspiring or enjoyable for children, according to academics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Related publications
‘Smart but unhappy: Independent-school competition and the wellbeing-efficiency trade-off in education’, Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren, Economics of Education Review, Volume 62, February 2018
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775717301619