A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
The government is failing poor pupils
If the school cuts are allowed to continue, we're in danger of leaving behind a whole generation of working-class children, says ROBERT POOLE
THE independent think tank, the Education Policy Institute, published its 2019 annual report on the state of education in England last month and the results are damning.
It reveals that children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families will be nearly two years behind their wealthier peers by the end of secondary school, with the cause of this being traced back even before their birth.
The EPI published an infographic showing the lives of two children from different backgrounds. One a working-class child, the other a more wealthy child.
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