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Bravo Mr Gove #schoolstech #ictcurric
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Failing Our Most Vulnerable – Thoughts on FFT Repeat Suspensions & Exclusions Report
FFT have just published an analysis of repeat suspensions and exclusions across the life of students who started primary school in 2008 & 2009. The headline news is that both suspensions and exclusions are heavily weighted towards certain ethnic groups, those of the different Black, Gypsy/Roma & Irish heritage are around twice as likely to have been…
