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	<description>Making the case for selective education</description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve got your grades, now comes the really difficult bit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Basil McCrea MLA, education spokesman for the Ulster Unionist Party, said: &#8220;How can the Education Minister not see what an excellent education system we already have when she looks at these results?
&#8220;They should make her think again about her plan to outlaw academic selection from Northern Ireland.&#8221;
 
By Kathryn Torney, Education Correspondent, ktorney@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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		<title>How will you improve state schools? And did you get a first from Oxford?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publication date: 10 August 2009
Source: The Independent          Page: 30,31
(c) 2009 Independent &#38; Media PLC
Comment &#124; You ask the questions: Michael Gove, Tory spokesman for children, schools and families
Why does no one advocate introducing proper grammar school-style education into top streams in comprehensives? This should keep the grammar school brigade happy and, because children develop at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not Oxbridge&#8217;s fault if state school pupils don&#8217;t apply</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Before those institutions were all but wiped out by the legislation of an earlier Labour Government, the grammar schools outclassed the independent sector in terms of their academic results&#8221;
 
Dominic Lawson    1280 words
Publication date: 11 August 2009          Source: The Independent
Page: 22,23      (c) 2009 Independent &#38; Media PLC
Comment
I think it&#8217;s called cognitive dissonance. The front page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children need to be taught to think highly of education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Grammar schools were the great lever by which children from disadvantaged homes could be lifted to the ranks of the academic elite.&#8221;
 
Mary Warnock    824 words
Publication date: 29 July 2009   Source: The Independent
Page: 29,28      (c) 2009 Independent &#38; Media PLC
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LORD MANDELSON, himself an Oxford graduate from a maintained school, has raised the old cry: down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the University Challenge that is defeating Labour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;IN THE Fifties and Sixties when I was at school, most Oxbridge entrants came from State schools. That&#8217;s because we had brilliant grammar schools. Today, private schools dominate because they get by far the best A-level results. So much for equality.&#8221;
 
Chris Roycroft
Davies Political commentator     871 words
Publication date: 29 July 2009   Source: The Daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh do keep up: social mobility is far from dead; Last week&#8217;s gloomy diagnosis of a sclerotic Britain is based on a lazy consensus that is both wrong and damaging, says David Goodhart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Grammars did help to move a few people from close to the bottom to the very top and Labour&#8217;s abolition of most such schools is one factor behind the continued private-school domination of Oxbridge and key professions.&#8221;
 
David Goodhart            2116 words
Publication date: 26 July 2009   Source: The Sunday Times
Page: 2             (c) 2009 Times Newspapers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EVENING STANDARD COMMENT; SCHOOLS ARE THE KEY TO REAL SOCIAL MOBILITY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The golden age for social mobility was the era of the grammar schools: before their abolition, more students from state school entered Oxford and Cambridge than from private schools.&#8221;
654 words        Publication date: 21 July 2009
Source: The Evening Standard  Page: 14
(c) 2009 Associated Newspapers. All rights reserved
THE report by the former health secretary, Alan Milburn, into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour&#8217;s policies keep the lower classes firmly in their place.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State schools have been wrecked and now it is the turn of our best universities, says Simon Heffer
By Simon Heffer
1270 words
Publication date: 22 July 2009
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Page: 16
(c) 2009 Telegraph Group Limited, London
The Department of the Bleeding Obvious is one of the most cash-hungry in government. It employs politicians and bureaucrats at huge expense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two cheers for Alan Milburn&#8217;s report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mr Milburn advocates that the state should “act as a surrogate pushy parent” to children from deprived backgrounds. Which, of course, is exactly what it did under the old grammar school system.&#8221;
Source: Telegraph Online
Author: Janet Daily
(c) 2009 Telegraph Group Limited, London

Alan Milburn’s report on social mobility says some brave and radical things. He gets so much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHARITIES ARE BEING HIJACKED AND TURNED INTO PAWNS IN LABOUR&#8217;S CLASS WAR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE MELANIE PHILLIPS COLUMN
Selective education is the single most effective vehicle ever devised for propelling poor children out of disadvantage. Destroying the grammar schools not only trapped poor children within their impoverished backgrounds.
 
1280 words      Publication date: 20 July 2009
Source: Daily Mail        Page: 14
(c) 2009 Associated Newspapers. All rights reserved
THE Government&#8217;s &#8217;social mobility czar&#8217;, Alan [...]]]></description>
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