1 day ago by george1864

Today the DCSF published statistics on GCSE attainment by pupil characteristics for 2008-09. It breaks down GCSE results according to gender, ethnicity, free school meal (FSM) entitlement, special educational needs (SEN) and English as a first language. In summary it shows that girls are outperformi ...

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1 day ago by janevangalen

According to a new poll by the New York Times/CBS News, reported in today’s New York Times, Joblessness has wreaked financial and emotional havoc on the lives of many of those out of work, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll of unemployed adults, causing major life changes, mental health iss ...

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2 days ago by Rebecca Reid

Mary Barton is the only living child of John Barton, poor factory worker and Union leader in Manchester. He hoped for better for her, so he apprenticed her to a dressmaker, hoping that she could avoid the dreary life of a factory girl. Mary has high ambitions, hoping to snare the attentions of the y ...

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2 days ago by Steve

“Poor students top performers at elite unis – similar picture to Irish results – The Australian http://tinyurl.com/yemqfvl” ( tweet) [Colm Harmon, Twitter, 13 December]

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4 days ago by trotskyite

In recent posts, I have been describing how “classism” (the stratification of society according to wealth) has become a new kind of racism. However, I feel obligated to describe how classism, in turn, creates and perpetuates racism. It all starts with immigration. Immigration is, most often, a resul ...

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4 days ago by Sue

College professors have always complained about college students. The complaints usually starts with the phrase "the trouble with college students today..." and usually also contains the phrase "when I was a student..." The fact is that college students today are different from the past, in a whole ...

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4 days ago by eddie/shiqin

There are many things that could be written about for this reservist. I could talk about... allocation of man, expectations of discipline, and so many other things. But for now, I will look at things from a sociological perspective and reflect on the things I learnt... I realise that being in univer ...

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5 days ago by Attic Fantasist

Has Gordon Brown woken the country up from its lethargy regarding the issue of class, which continues to simmer under the supposedly modern surface of meritocratic life? Possibly. His talk of the playing fields of Eton taps into suspicions most British people surely have of David Cameron and his tea ...

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5 days ago by george1864

The publication this week, Secondary school admissions in England: Admission Forums, local authorities and schools by the LSE has brought into question the fairness of school admissions. The report, written by Philip Noden and Anne West from the LSE’s Education Research Group is actually the 2nd of ...

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6 days ago by The Perimeter Primate

In Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2003), Annette Lareau compares the parenting styles of middle-class families to that of working class and poor parents. I’ve written about her work before. According to Lareau, one characteristic of working class and poor parents which would make ...

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