Clever pupils don’t need to attend academically selective schools to thrive, study finds

Clever pupils don’t need to attend academically selective schools to thrive, study finds

Findings published in a new peer-reviewed paper in the British Journal of Educational Studies challenges the idea that academically selective schools are necessary for clever pupils to achieve good outcomes. Selective schools are government-funded schools that enrol only the highest performing students. Pupils take a standardized entrance exam, from which the best-scoring are enrolled. Some … Read more