A speaker at a recent educational conference suggested that the primary task for schools in challenging injustice was to reduce the gap between the attainment levels of our most affluent children and our poorest. We need to provide the motivation, confidence, knowledge and skills which our poorest children lack if we are to boost their academic outputs.
I am certain that almost every teacher is committed to raising attainment. In particular teachers in schools serving our poorest communities, as I was for most of my career, want to raise the attainment of that cohort of young people which has historically failed to succeed.
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