Why England's Schools Are Failing White Working-Class Students

An independent inquiry into Star Academies, England's largest school group, found the entire education system is structurally misaligned to serve white working-class children. The problem isn't individual schools but how curriculum, teacher training, and funding work together. Parliamentary reports since 2012 show white British boys from poor families pass basic benchmarks at half the national rate—51% versus 74%—yet the government has avoided major legislative change.