Meritocratic and Social Class Selection at Age Eleven

Swift, D. F.

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“…In the decades following the implementation of the Education Act of 1944, the influence of home circumstances on pupil achievement in school was well documented in reports published by both government and independent researchers (see, for example, Ministry of Education 1954Education , 1963Douglas 1964;Swift 1965Swift , 1966. As the number and size of ethnic minority groups in England increased, an additional facet was added to the diversity of home backgrounds noted in those reports of the 1950s and 1960s.…”

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Bridging worlds: ethnic minority pupils in Catholic schools in England

Morris

2010

Journal of Beliefs & Values

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Aggregated attainment data for each of the four Key Stages of the National Curriculum during 2006-07 are used to compare the performance of schools having differing proportions of ethnic minority pupils on roll. The data are for all maintained primary and secondary schools that completed the 2007 Annual Schools' Census. There are noticeable differences across the phases between schools in the Catholic and non-Catholic sectors. The average levels of pupil attainment in Catholic schools tend to be higher than in other institutions, the differentials between the sectors increasing the greater the proportion of ethnic minority pupils on roll. The significance and limitations of the findings are discussed and areas for further study suggested.

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