How did the attainment gap change during the pandemic?
An update on our work looking at how the attainment gap between disadvantaged primary pupils and their classmates has changed during the course of the pandemic
Do disadvantaged children receive enough financial education in school?
In the final part of this series on financial literacy, we look at financial education in schools.
Are there socio-economic differences in how parents interact with their children about money?
In part three of our series on children's financial literacy, we look at how parents talk to their children about money.
What’s the point of more elite sixth forms?
Super-selective sixth forms tend to recruit more students from outside the area in which they are located and don’t tend to recruit that many disadvantaged pupils.
The financial skills of children. What can rich kids do that poor kids can’t?
The second post in this series examining children's financial literacy. This post focuses on the disadvantage gap in financial knowledge and skills.
How unequal are children’s financial literacy skills?
In the first of a four part series on financial literacy, we look at socio-economic gaps in children’s financial knowledge
How much in-person teaching have Year 11 missed?
With the first external exams since 2019 due to take place this year, we summarise the scale and variation of disruption experienced by Year 11s since the start of the pandemic
How school absence varies from day to day
Absence tends to be lowest on Wednesday mornings and (perhaps unsurprisingly) highest on Friday afternoons.
Exploring persistent absence
Some thoughts about how persistent absence could be defined in a world affected by Covid