«Anyone who is truly concerned for the family as the building block of society, and is
realistic about the mobility of British people today, must see both the folly of this policy and how it is an affront to the status of British citizenship,» Nichols added.
On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes
about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more
realistic about the kind of social
mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.