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Social Mobility and COVID-19: Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis for Educational Inequality
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Montacute, Rebecca – Sutton Trust, 2020
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are far reaching and are likely to impact on practically every area of government policy for a long time to come. The policy landscape is shifting rapidly, with changes coming not in days or weeks but often in hours. This briefing covers the Sutton Trust's immediate concerns, based on the information available,…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Equal Education, Economic Impact, Access to Education
Selective Comprehensives: The Social Composition of Top Comprehensive Schools
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Sutton Trust, 2013
This study looks at publicly available data on the proportion of pupils eligible and claiming for free school meals (FSM) in the top 500 comprehensive state schools and at how representative they are of their localities and of their school type. We have looked at the top 500 when measured by five good GCSEs including English and Maths and at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comprehensive Programs, Institutional Characteristics, Case Studies
Attainment Gaps between the Most Deprived and Advantaged Schools: A Summary and Discussion of Research by the Education Research Group at the London School of Economics
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Sutton Trust, 2009
One of the defining characteristics of countries, such as the United Kingdom, with low social mobility are stark, persistent gaps in the school results between children from deprived backgrounds and their more advantaged counterparts. Far from acting as the great social leveler, education systems can perpetuate inequalities, and enable the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Achievement Gap, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Schools