Monday, December 03, 2007

Educational achievement

How many grammar schools in England ever produced a Nobel laureate? How many have produced 2?

I ask because the performance of black boys in the English school system was in the news again last week

Those whose business it is to think about these things might care to ponder how one small secondary school in St Lucia managed to produce two Afro Caribbean Nobel laureates

And why so many educational professionals take it for granted that the idea that one of our schools might do the same is just the impossible dream


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