by Mithran Samuel

The link between social background and educational performance is part of the DNA of the UK's education system, and England's in particular. Recent data on social mobility suggests this problem is getting worse. So it's refreshing that all three mainstream political parties see closing the results gap between less and more affluent pupils as a priority. Not only is there some consensus on this goal, but also on at least one of the means to achieve it, namely "freeing" schools from "local authority control". Yet the link between means and end is at best unclear and at worst the converse of the truth.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2008/03/social-mobility-and-free-schoo.html