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Grammar schools

Fact checks focused on grammar schools, free schools and educational impacts on social mobility

12 September 2016

Education

Social mobility in the selective education era

By Conor James McKinney • 4 mins

The evidence suggests that grammar schools weren't any better for overall social mobility in their 1950s/60s heyday than they are at the moment. Read

Analysis

11 November 2013

Education

Grammar schools and social mobility: what's the evidence?

By Amy Sippitt and Charlotte Browning • 6 mins

Grammar schools are back in the headlines, with particular reference to their impact on social mobility. What does the evidence tell us? Read

Analysis