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Further problems with recent grammar school research

Hector Drummond Posted on Monday 2nd April 2018 by Hector DrummondMonday 2nd April 2018

For those who are interested in the current grammar schools debate, there’s a must-read article up at The Conservative Woman by Chris McGovern, who claims that the inadequacies of the current GCSE system mean that any recent research based on … Continue reading →

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The predictable academic move to kill off grammars

Hector Drummond Posted on Thursday 29th March 2018 by Hector DrummondThursday 29th March 2018

When Theresa May announced a year ago that the Conservatives would support more grammar schools opening in the UK I expected that this would result in education academics doing some studies that would conveniently show that grammars are a bad … Continue reading →

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