Top teachers needed to help poor white pupils

Sir Peter Lampl is quoted by Richard Adams in the Guardian coverage of the Select Committee report on white working class pupils.

Top teachers need to be attracted to work in struggling schools to tackle underachievement by poor, white, working-class children, a committee of MPs has recommended.

A report by the Commons education committee said that white British children from deprived areas appear to be less resilient to the effects of poverty than other ethnic groups, who perform better at school despite similar levels of deprivation. They called for more help and research by the government.

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Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust, said there were “unacceptable gaps” at all stages of the education system. “These now affect the white working class communities more than any other community, and we must do all we can to narrow them,” Lampl said. “The committee is absolutely right to say that good schools and great teaching are the answer.”

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The Education Endowment Foundation was mentioned in Telegraph coverage of the report here