General Article ‘Little robots’: behind the scenes at an academy school

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New research from the Faculty of Education lifts the lid on an influential academy school, and finds an authoritarian system that reproduces race and class inequalities.

Structure liberates: the ethos behind one of England’s flagship academy schools. 

Designed as an engine of social mobility, this school drills ‘urban children’ for the grades and behaviour considered a passport to the world of middle-class salaries and sensibilities.

The headline-grabbing exam results of this school have led ...

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