Education secretary says arguments and disengaged parents cost nine GCSE gradesChildren’s home environments have a bigger effect on social mobility than being born into low-income backgrounds or attending underperforming schools, the education secretary has said.Damian Hinds described the issue as “the last taboo in public policy”, and added that “what parents do is actually more important than who your parents are” in an unscripted speech addressed to people involved in education and press on Monday. Continue reading…
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