Betrayed by schools: the 50,000 bright 7 year olds who fail to shine at 11

Another article highlighting how mass schooling is wasting the potential of the brightest students.

Professor Alan Smithers of Buckingham University said children in the top ability range are ‘perhaps too often left to their own devices’.

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‘We don’t do enough for the really able in our education system.’

Understatement of the millennium.

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