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Tag: educational achievement

Speech patterns and educational achievement

restricted and elaborated speech codes explain social class differences in achievement.

April 10, 2023
Explaining the Gender Gap in Education

Changes in women’s employment, family life, ambitions, socialisation and the impact of feminism all explain the gender gap in education

April 15, 2020
Official Statistics on Educational Achievement in the U.K. – Strengths and Limitations

How useful are official statistics for understanding differences in educational achievement by social class, gender and ethnicity? How do GCSE results vary by social class, gender and ethnicity? The data below is taken from either the Department for Education’s document – Key Stage 4 performance 2019 (Revised), or Gov.uk ‘ethnicity facts and figures‘. The later…

December 23, 2015
Class differences in education: the role of in-school factors

In school factors include labelling, subcultures and the hidden curriculum.

February 2, 2015
Cultural Capital and Social class differences in educational achievement

cultural capital refers to the skills, knowledge, attitudes and tastes through which typically middle class parents are able to give their children an advantage in life compared to working class children.

January 31, 2015