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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale and Peter Walker

HISTORICAL FACTS: White working class children failed by englands school system inquiry finds - The Untold Story

Children's legs and shadows captured mid-jump while skipping on a playground surface with white lines
The inquiry also found white working-class children were about half as likely as their less disadvantaged peers to get GCSEs in maths and English. Photograph: Stuart Boulton/Alamy

High-performing primary and secondary schools in England should be encouraged to admit more disadvantaged pupils from white working-class backgrounds to help reverse a continuing crisis in underachievement, an independent inquiry has said.

The independent inquiry into white working-class educational outcomes concluded the current education system was “not set up to serve white working-class children and families”.

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