Times Educational Supplement:
Why we should take a gamble on social mobility
28 September 2018
We cling on to the hope that education can act as the great social leveller, enabling children from poorer backgrounds to overcome the circumstances they are born into. But in our book Social Mobility and Its Enemies, Stephen Machin and I report evidence, gathered over a number of decades and for a range of countries, showing that, for most children, education has failed to live up to these lofty expectations. It is an impossible task when the gap between the haves and have-nots is so wide outside the school gates. And one way the middle classes gain advantage is by ensuring their sons and daughters get the "best" school and university places.
Social Mobility: And Its Enemies, Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin. Paperback, ISBN 9780241317020, Penguin Books Ltd. 27 October 2018.
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