Long-term disadvantage, part five: What explains the gap between London and the north?

This is part five in a series of blogposts exploring long-term disadvantage. Other posts in the series can be found here. We looked recently at the Progress 8 scores of long-term disadvantaged pupils – those who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) for 90% or more of their time in schools – and concluded that: [...]

By |2018-09-27T17:22:42+01:0023rd February 2018|Pupil demographics, School improvement|

Shadowplay

Towards the end of last month, the Department for Education published ‘shadow’ Attainment 8 data for 2015/16 [PDF]. This shows the impact of moving from the familiar scoring of A*-G grades – one point for grade G, up to eight points for grade A* – to the interim scale that will be used in 2016/17 [...]

By |2017-10-23T13:02:05+01:0027th April 2017|Exams and assessment, School accountability|
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