CMPO Viewpoint: a blog from The Centre for Market and Public Organisation
Blog post by Simon Burgess and Ellen Greaves (IFS) and Anna Vignoles (University of Cambridge)
Why are pupils from disadvantaged families more often found studying in poorly performing schools?
Is it choice or is it constraint?
Is it because the families choose local schools despite low performance?
Or is it because the school admissions system which focusses on proximity to school works against poorer families?
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Hazel’s comment:
Sometimes the answers to the above type of questions are obvious, sometimes they are not but anecdotal response does not move policy-makers.
Sometimes considered, researched response doesn’t move them either but that is a different issue.
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