Sentences with phrase «selective schooling»

Now campaigners are worried that others will use the expansion fund to open new selective schools by the back door.

It does not follow that creating selective schools in disadvantaged areas that they will primarily serve disadvantaged pupils.

The one saving grace here is the Conservatives have not stuck a number on this desire for selective schools.

But new government analysis shows a majority of selective school places go to more affluent families.

The boarding schools on this list are highly selective schools with many more applicants than places for students.

The blunt reality is that rich kids win chess tournaments — or, more precisely, rich kids plus the cognitive elite who attend selective schools with competitive entrance exams.

The admissions folks are remarkably busy people in the fall and winter, so a rather pointless phone call is likely to be an annoyance, especially at selective schools.

More selective schools require two or three for freshman placement.

About 40 percent of all white students are enrolled at the most selective schools, which also tend to have the best graduation rates, compared with 25 percent of all black students.

The figures are important for the government which today confirmed it plans to reveal policies aimed at getting more disadvantaged pupils into selective schools.

The government wants to overturn the existing ban on new grammar schools, and will spend # 50 million a year helping existing selective schools to expand.

To gain a place at these academically selective schools, pupils have to pass a test, which varies from one area to another.

The report found that socially selective schools tended to be faith - based, admitting religious families from higher social groups.

But many other selective schools may be quietly shifting away from the practice.

Even at less selective schools, your chances of receiving an acceptance letter are diminished if your scores are below the norm for admitted students.

The expanded wholly selective schools will have to set out plans to admit disadvantaged pupils, perhaps by lowering the entrance requirements.

It's right that all good and outstanding schools — including selective schools — should be able to expand to give parents greater choice.

What we're looking for is a measure of how well the poorer children who have been admitted to selective schools perform.

At present just 3 per cent of entrants to selective schools take free meals.

Worse, selective schools keep us from understanding what constitutes a good school.

If selective schools want to make a greater difference, then we need more disadvantaged kids to be offered this provision (& stay & succeed).

Though, to be fair, if the magnet or selective schools magically went away, overall district outcomes wouldn't change that much.

The new selective schools proposed by the government will support «young people from every background, not the privileged few».

The government's controversial decision to approve the first selective school in 50 years looks set to prompt a series of similar applications for «satellite» developments to existing grammar schools.

The grammar school debate is firmly back on the agenda thanks to a burgeoning campaign by Conservative MPs to lift the ban on new selective schools.

There are seven selective schools in the «top» list.

We all hear about the highly selective schools that only take ace testers and «A» students.

Good news for low income families whose children attend selective schools.

Half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective schools running other nearby schools.

At less selective schools, an overnight stay might be an option at any point in the admissions cycle.

A total of 37 selective schools recorded negative scores for their disadvantaged pupils in 2017.

A spokesperson for the Department for Education said: «The Weald of Kent's annex proposal was assessed against the criteria for selective school expansions.

The Council is the largest in the UK to retain a mainly selective school system, with 25 per cent of secondary school age pupils attending one of the 33 grammar schools in the area.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «If this case is successful, the consequence will be that it will be much harder for faith groups to collaborate with Councils to open fully religiously selective schools outside of competition with other proposals — a route which they are uniquely able to pursue.

She will say that the country has for too long «tolerated a system that contains an arbitrary rule preventing selective schools from being established», which she claims has sacrificed children's potential «because of dogma and ideology».

The NFER collected information from 38 partially selective schools in England that select more than ten per cent of pupils and it was found that pupils with higher attainment make less progress in maths in partial schools.

Proposals for expanding selective schools are due in the coming weeks, with existing schools converting to become grammars mooted as one option.

Responding to the Sunday Telegraph report, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the party would oppose such a move, while shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said selective schools belonged «in the dustbin of history».

It was revealed on Wednesday that ministers had invited grammar school leaders to apply for # 150m over three years for new selective school places.

Yet, Hammond believes that the transport scheme will help more disadvantaged pupils attend selective schools as for «many parents the cost of travel can be a barrier to exercising choice».

Richard Watts of the Local Government Association said that local authorities «must have a say over whether or not selective schools are introduced in non-selective areas».

Whereas a large number of colleges and universities require SAT or ACT scores, only elite and highly selective schools require SAT Subject Test scores.

I am in a non selective school who plays by the rules and is now classed as coasting.

A white paper confirming the government's plans will be followed by legislation in the next parliamentary session to remove the ban on new selective schools which was put in place by Tony Blair in 1998.

In a school system in which more than a million pupils are not being given the education that they need and deserve, it can not be right to prevent the creation of more good and outstanding selective school places.

Its consultation document says: «Selective schools also need to ensure the pupils they admit are representative of their local communities.»

He said Bexley had a «non-coachable» selective school test based on ability, which it hoped had created a more «level playing field» for those applying to secondary school.