{"id":1119,"date":"2017-06-08T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:16:22","slug":"grammar-schools-tory-manifesto-claims-and-the-evidence-that-debunks-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Grammar schools: Tory manifesto claims and the evidence that debunks them"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How evidence-based are the Conservative proposals on grammar schools? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfAliceS\">@ProfAliceS<\/a> explains&#8230;<br \/>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s1Gc3NXPYA\">https:\/\/t.co\/s1Gc3NXPYA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GE2017?src=hash\">#GE2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4DU1cqdhBm\">pic.twitter.com\/4DU1cqdhBm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IOE (@IOE_London) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IOE_London\/status\/870867145114112000\">June 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nProfessor Alice Sullivan of the UCL Institute of Education was &#8216;amazed&#8217; at the claim in the 2017 Conservative Party Manifesto that &#8216;slightly more children from ordinary, working class families attend selective schools as a percentage of the school intake as compared to non-selective schools&#8217;. So she dug into the evidence offered and discovered that this claim goes &#8216;beyond selective use of evidence, and enters the territory of statistical jiggery-pokery&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ioelondonblog.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/29\/how-evidence-based-are-the-conservative-manifesto-proposals-on-grammar-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read about this on the IOE London blog<\/a>. The &#8216;UK&#8217;s leading centre for education research&#8217; is a rather more reliable source of evidence than &#8216;statistical jiggery-pokery&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How evidence-based are the Conservative manifesto proposals on grammar schools? Not at all, says a Professor at the UCL Institute of Education, as she digs into the DfE&#8217;s own figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}