Sir Peter Lampl wrote for Prospect magazine online on our International Inequalities research brief

The world’s English-speaking countries, which include the home nations of Britain and the United States, Australia and Canada, have much in common—culturally, historically, economically. But they are also very different in some ways. And nowhere is this more true than in their national education policies.

But despite the differences between their systems, comparing the education performance of different countries can give us important insights into which school approaches are more effective than others. Our latest piece of research examined a range of international evidence to establish what we know about educational inequality across the English-speaking world.

The findings don’t make comfortable reading for us: the education gaps between children of the most and least educated parents when they start school are bigger in the UK than they are in Canada and Australia. Only the US has a bigger reading gap than us.

Read his full piece here

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