Fifty-five per cent of secondary schools in the most deprived parts of England do not achieve thirty per cent of children getting five good GCSEs including English and maths - the government's official benchmark for a failing school. In the 10 per cent richest areas only three per cent of secondary schools are officially "failing". The statistics come from A Failed Generation - Educational Inequality under Labour , which was published today (Friday) by the...


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