The Daily Mail features Nicky Morgan’s speech at the Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation Summit.

Children from poor families do worse at school because of the ‘bigotry of low expectation’ shown by teachers, the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan will claim today.

In a speech to a Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation summit in London, Mrs Morgan will insist that it is not enough to ‘close the gap’ between poorer and wealthier students.

‘Pupils that lag behind their peers should be encouraged to reach their full potential and to go further than simply ‘catching up’,’ she will say.

‘If we would want our own children to study the core academic subjects, we should extend that opportunity to every child.

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