A comprehensive disaster!

Who would have thought it? Grammar Schooling better than Comprehensive? It just cannot be!
If that were true, it would mean that the liberal-left have been wantonly leading us up an egalitarian garden path for 45 years!

'Prof Smithers and Dr Pamela Robinson analysed scores in separate science tests taken by 15-year-olds in developed nations in 2006. They compared results from 10 countries exercising academic selection at some point during secondary education with results from 18 non-selective nations.
Selective countries, including Austria, Germany, Japan, Korea and the Netherlands, gained consistently higher scores in physics, biology and a scientific literacy test, it was disclosed.
Nations with non-selective systems, included Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and France, fared worse across the board.'

Basic common sense - a rare commodity on the left - dictates that lumping all abilities in together is doomed to fail!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7849710/Schools-should-select-by-ability-at-14.html