Class counts? Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Monday, 17 December 2007

The findings of a report conducted by the Sutton Trust into the educational achievements of working-class and poor children compared with their better-off peers were recently published.

The Trust tested three-year-olds to determine their intellectual capabilities, their intelligence and ‘brightness’ in other words. It may come as no surprise to learn that those children who came out top but were from working-class families had, by the age of seven,  fallen far behind children from middle-class and well-off families who had been in the bottom segment at the age of three.