School Lottery 'Fails to Reduce Social Segregation'

Western Morning News, The › September 03, 2010

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A controversial "lottery" designed to allocate school places fairly has failed to reduce segregation between rich and poor pupils, research suggests today.

Richer pupils are still dominating places at top-performing schools in Brighton and Hove, and poorer pupils are missing out because of the way school catchment areas are drawn up, according to a study by the Institute of Education and Bristol University.

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School Lottery 'Fails to Reduce Social Segregation'

Brighton and Hove introduced a lottery system, the first of it...

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