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Direct linkFisher, Trevor – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2010
The author argues that the debate on declining social mobility has neglected the role of the examination and testing system. At all levels of education working class children are failing and middle class children achieving whatever ability levels are involved. The article focusses on the A-Level examination and the controversy over the way the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, Achievement Tests, Role
