But I still think the NTS is more interesting: it is another sign that the biggest conversation in English education is now about the only force in our schools that is more powerful than poverty: geography.
In fact when the Greeks wrote and performed tragedies and Shakespeare likewise, the richest, most celebrated and most powerful people appear to have more woes than people who are poverty - stricken, homeless and hungry.
Rather than a pedagogy of poverty, what students who live in poverty need is powerful pedagogy: powerful instruction resulting in powerful (or deep) learning.