General Article Class has much bigger effect on white pupils' results

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Researchers investigating academic performance in an inner London borough found that, for pupils from most ethnic minorities, the socio-economic backgrounds of each child’s parents had only limited impact on how much progress they made during the last four years of primary school.
However, for White British pupils, the picture was very different, with those from better-off homes pulling away dramatically from their peers from less advantaged backgrounds. This meant that, while White British pu...

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