Bridget Phillipson vowed to tackle the 'thorny' challenge of British white working-class kids falling behind their classmates ahead of A-level results day ... .
Labour have admitted to failing white, working-class children in Britain ... Gibb believes Labour “didn’t do the work in opposition to try and understand how to improve” and that they’ve been “listening to the teacher unions too closely” ... .
White working class pupils’ underachievement in exams due to being ‘written off’ is a ‘national disgrace’, Bridget Phillipson has said ... White working class pupils – especially boys – are among the lowest-performing groups in the country.
Labour have admitted to failing white, working-class children in Britain ... Gibb believes Labour “didn’t do the work in opposition to try and understand how to improve” and that they’ve been “listening to the teacher unions too closely” ... Show comments ... .
Many of the barriers to white-British working-class achievement in the education system are social and cultural ...White working-class underachievement in the English education system is driven by a myriad of factors – economic, social, and cultural.
Education SecretaryBridget Phillipson proved that nugget of old English wisdom this week, when she admitted that white, working-class British students are in danger of being 'written off' by the rest of society ... My roots are solidly working-class.
I think of this incident whenever stories appear about white working-class children failing educationally ...MeetTyler (not his real name), a white working-class 15 year-old educational failure whom I am trying to teach.
White working-class children in Britain are being “written off” by society, the Education Secretary has admitted ... It comes as Labour seeks to tackle claims by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party that it has abandoned its traditional working-class voters.