General Article Are our schools really failing?

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By Fiona Miller


The received wisdom in parts ofthe media is as follows:

  • State schools are getting worse.
  • The £37 billion spent on them (a 74% increase in real terms) since 1997 has been wasted.
  • There was once a ‘golden age’ when grammar scho...

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