Class and Education
Research findings released on Monday are nicely summarised in this BBC News article
BBC NEWS | Education | Wealth gap in learning, by age 3
Although sociologists have known for some time that socio-economic group has a significant effect on educational achievement, this is some useful up to date evidence on this fact which here seems to be linked both to poverty and to parental education, as well as other factors such as family types. The study is still ongoing, following a cohort of 15,000 children born between 2000 and 2002, so these findings are what has been found ’so far’.
If you want more detail you can follow the link below to the Institute of Education website where there are very readable ‘briefing sheets’ on the study’s findings. The material on educational progress is under “cognitive development”.
http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/briefings.asp?section=0001000100060005