#educational-inequality

#educational-inequality

What's becoming clear is that this divide is no longer confined to the labor market. It's now embedded in its foundation: education. When access to advanced degrees depends not on ability or workforce demand, but on whether a household can absorb six figures of upfront cost, stratification accelerates. The upper branch compounds advantage through credentialed mobility. The lower branch absorbs risk, debt, and stalled progression.

Grades in law school are extremely important since they are the most critical factor when law graduates search for jobs upon entering the legal profession. Most law schools have grading curves, which can be unforgiving, as a law student's grade is often dependent on their performance on a single final exam. At certain law schools, however, law students can employ certain strategies to earn higher grades and boost their GPAs.

Bridget Phillipson has said she is ready to take on the unions in a battle over compulsory reading tests for 13-year-olds and more extracurricular activities for all children to prevent them becoming stuck in a doom loop of detachment from school. The education secretary said that teaching unions, who have argued the tests were unnecessary and distracting, should really think carefully about whether they could justify standing in the way of tackling the shocking outcomes that exist for many working-class children.

Indeed, the announcement by the College Board last month that it was discontinuing Landscape, a tool that provided admissions officers with data about a student's high school and neighborhood- including median family income, local college-going rates and school resources-was so alarming because it marks a pivot in selective college admissions away from understanding students' achievements in the context of their backgrounds and toward judging everyone by standardized metrics like GPA and test scores.

Pupils in London are outperforming those in the rest of the country, but Labour has no credible plan to fix the problem, a leading think tank has warned.