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How race, sex and class combine to affect school results

By Steve Strand, Professor of Education, University of Oxford

When it comes to education, we cannot think about race, sex and class in isolation. When I was commissioned by the UK government to investigate how these issues affect academic achievement, I discovered how they all matter – and in combination. I believe that an analysis that focuses on any one of these in isolation will inevitably miss important aspects of inequality.

I was tasked with analysing inequalities in educational…

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