Education Policy

Stephen Gorard is Professor of Education and Public Policy at Durham University. He is a member of the UK DfE Associate Pool, the British Academy grants panel, the ESRC commissioning panel for Strategic Networks, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He regularly gives advice to governments and other policy-makers, and is a widely read and cited methodologist, involved in international and regional capacity-building activities, and used as an adviser on the design of rigorous evaluations by central and local governments, NGOs and charities.

• INTRODUCTION;Introduction: the themes of the book;The nature of the evidence assembled;Differential outcomes at school and beyond;POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS;The clustering of access to schools;Differential attainment at school;Differential school `effects’;School improvement;Learning beyond institutions;The wider outcomes of schools as societies;Widening participation to higher education;The supply of professionals;Widening participation to other opportunities;CONCLUSIONS;Where now for equity and effectiveness policy?.

"A rather remarkable book by a rather remarkable academic. I know that students, education practitioners and researchers will make good use of this book; I sincerely hope that it falls into the hands of politicians and policy-makers where it may interrupt some of the policy-problems it identifies." Educational Research and Evaluation