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John Bercow: I've changed my mind - grammar schools must go
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Selection in state schools needn’t be divisive | Iain Martin
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): assessment processes for selective school admissions
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Grammar schools advised to postpone 11-plus exams amid Covid-19 disruption
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11-plus exams should be delayed due to Covid, says DfE
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Schools advised to delay 11-plus tests until November
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DfE won't create more selection, grammar heads predict
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Groups applying to open fully selective faith schools with government funding revealed
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'Super-selective' grammar school must change rules
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Confusion reigns over secretive ‘selective schools team’
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Australia: Are selective schools too exclusive?
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Speed-read: Nick Gibb’s ‘Grammar School’ response to MPs
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Nick Gibb responds to MPs on grammar schools
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Dear Ms Greening, why won’t your boss give up on new grammar schools?| Michael Rosen
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We've given up on grammars, says May: PM backs expansion of selective schools for first time since election
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Selective schools left in limbo over £200m capital funding
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Leading girls' schools scrap entrance exams amid mental health concerns
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How prevalent is Year 12 drop- out from selective schools?
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DfE amends grammar schools research after complaint to stats watchdog
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Secondary school preferences by school type: 2016
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Reform grammar schools or pull their funding, senior MP tells ministers
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ASCL comment on Queen’s Speech
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  • Jun 21, 2017
The self-serving myths peddled by selective and private schools | Letters
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Let’s build on passions unleashed in the election to blast apart the market in schools | Fiona Millar
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  • Jun 12, 2017
Conservatives used 'false' data to justify grammar school plans, leading academic claims
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  • May 30, 2017
Tory manifesto pledge is for only 17 extra free schools
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  • May 26, 2017
Grammar schools: back to the bad old days of inequality – podcast
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  • May 22, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 19 May 2017
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  • May 19, 2017
The politician running schools in Wales answers the big questions facing our education system
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  • May 19, 2017
Policy Exchange’s John Blake comments on Labour’s education proposals, in the TES
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Grammar schools fail to help 'just about managing' families, researchers conclude
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  • May 18, 2017
NAHT response to the Conservative manifesto
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  • May 18, 2017
Conservative funding pledge is sleight of hand
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  • May 18, 2017
I went to a grammar school – that doesn’t mean I have to support them | Michael Rosen
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We'll block Theresa's grammar school revolution, warn the luvvie elite
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ATL comment on the dice being loaded against poorer pupils going to grammar schools
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'Rolling a loaded dice': the verdict on the 11-plus in Kent
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  • May 5, 2017
Grammar schools: back to the bad old days of inequality
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Open new selective schools in MATs only, urges Carmichael
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ASCL calls on political parties to put an end to ‘scattergun’ reforms
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  • Apr 26, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 21 April 2017
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  • Apr 21, 2017
Pupils are less confident in countries with selective schools, OECD finds
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General election 2017: Grammar schools likely to become campaign issue
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Amy Winehouse, Adele and Jessie J are no reason for new grammar schools | Laura McInerney
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NUT preps for legal action against ‘grammar streams’
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New grammars can spur social mobility
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'One rule for them' Labour MP squirms over top schools chosen by party's senior figures
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New grammar schools must help 'ordinary working families', Justine Greening claims
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Justine Greening: Grammar schools must do more to take pupils from 'ordinary working families'
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Grammar schools admission policy is a 'distraction'
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Justine Greening's speech smacks of desperation
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Greening defends grammars in speech about ‘ordinary working class’ children
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‘Ordinary working families’ won’t get access to grammar schools – and government data confirms as much
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Unions won’t go easy on grammar plans to win funding deal
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Extra school places and building repairs in £2.4bn boost
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Grammar schools scramble to change admissions policies to prioritise poor pupils ahead of government push
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  • Mar 31, 2017
'You went to a grammar school!' commons erupts as PM destroys hypocritical Corbyn
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  • Mar 22, 2017
PMQs: May gets personal with Corbyn over grammar schools
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  • Mar 22, 2017
Theresa May attacks Labour frontbenchers for sending their kids to private school
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Grammar schools debate: four key questions answered
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Former Eton head: academic selection is ‘old hat’
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Crossparty group of MPs unites to oppose May's grammar school plans
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  • Mar 19, 2017
Grammar schools: Tories could delay vote on ban until after 2020 election
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Spring Budget: ‘A dereliction of duty’
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School admissions: is a lottery a fairer system?
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Government warned over ‘elitist’ grammar schools, as reforms to be announced next month
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Lower 11-plus pass mark for poorer pupils, government tells grammars
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New 'social mobility conditions' could apply to existing grammars
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Education secretary heckled by angry head teachers
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Greening jeered over grammar school plans (video)
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Ofsted chief cool on grammars as Justine Greening heckled by headteachers
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Justine Greening: teacher development key to school improvement
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Class sizes rising and SEND support cut due to funding crisis
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Progress 8 still too similar to old GCSE measure – and 5 other findings from EPI report
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Grammar school taxis could cost £5k a pupil
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Low-attainers at partially selective schools do worse at GCSE, study finds
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Partially selective schools 'are no better for pupil outcomes', report finds
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  • Mar 9, 2017
More than half a billion extra for free schools, budget small print reveals
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Budget 2017: The 5 things schools need to know
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Grammar schools: why academic selection only benefits the very affluent
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Budget: Critics attack lack of action on free childcare funding
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  • Mar 8, 2017
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NASUWT comments on the 2017 spring budget
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Budget fails to address education funding crisis
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Ministers should invest in existing grammar schools rather than create new ones, head teachers say
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  • Mar 7, 2017
Now parents can drive grammars revolution
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Set up your own grammar school: £500million plan for 100 free schools will hand new powers to parents
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  • Mar 7, 2017
More free schools pledged amid budget squeeze
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  • Mar 7, 2017
Budget to pave way for return of grammars
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Budget 2017: £536m for refurbs and new free schools, but doubts over 500 target
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  • Mar 6, 2017
Budget 2017: Free transport for grammar schools up to 15 miles away
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New school funding formula could force grammar schools to ditch outreach work
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  • Feb 24, 2017
MPs: Government has not proved the case for new grammar schools
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  • Feb 13, 2017
Education committee: Government ‘yet to prove case’ for new grammar schools
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  • Feb 13, 2017
Tutored children of rich ‘will swamp new grammars’
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  • Feb 12, 2017
Heads 'furious' at grammar cash promise
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Grammar schools could admit just the cleverest 10% of pupils under new plans
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  • Feb 9, 2017
First new grammar schools 'could open by 2020'
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  • Feb 9, 2017
Super‑selective grammars to take brightest 10 per cent
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  • Feb 9, 2017
Schools should introduce 'grammar stream' for bright students, Ucas chief executive says
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  • Jan 26, 2017
Ofsted chief slams Brexit as a ‘national preoccupation’ amid fears education could suffer
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Schools that work for everyone?
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Grammar schools 'endanger social cohesion' without improving results, researchers argue
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Government launches pro-grammar schools ‘campaign’ just days after official consultation closes
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  • Dec 20, 2016
Grammars plan: heads tell education secretary of their 'deep opposition'
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  • Dec 12, 2016
Read NAHT’s response to the government’s plans to extend grammar schools
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  • Dec 12, 2016
Planned grammar school expansion could damage social mobility
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  • Dec 12, 2016
'Jams' benefit least from grammar schools, report finds
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  • Dec 9, 2016
Children of 'just managing families left out by grammars'
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  • Dec 9, 2016
‘Just about managing’ pupils significantly under-represented in grammar schools, claims Sutton Trust
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Grammars 'out of bounds for too many families
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  • Nov 28, 2016
Autumn statement: Grammars grants confirmed, but no schools funding boost
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  • Nov 23, 2016
Selective schools and the quality of teaching
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  • Nov 16, 2016
DfE doesn’t know which interventions are ‘value for money’, education secretary says
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A new government and a new regime
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  • Nov 4, 2016
Create new grammars to help poor, white pupils, report commissioned by Labour council suggests
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  • Nov 1, 2016