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Deprivation, ethnicity and school inspection judgements

Posted by: Jason Bradbury and Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 22 June 2018 - Categories: data and Insight, leadership, schools

...moved on considerably in schools across the country in the last decade and a half since I started inspecting. While in the early 2000s chair-chucking in schools in special measures...

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