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To improve education, we must address inequalities inside and outside schools

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By Lisa Banes, Ros McMullen, Kemi Butt
| Progressive Britain
Fund schools and trust school leaders to devise ways to tackle inequalities in their schools – and those beyond the school gates too, argues Ros McMullen Schools do not work in isolation. The British class system is far more pervasive in determining educational outcomes than we previously knew, and more than it is in other jurisdictions We all want every child to go to a good school. We all want every child to reach their full potential. And we all know that this is not currently happening.
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What ever happened to talk of a better tomorrow?

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By Joshua Curiel, Kemi Butt, Lisa Banes
| Progressive Britain
We used to talk about aspiration. About anyone being able to achieve anything in life no matter what their background or circumstances. The great surge of hope that surrounded our historic general election win in 1997 was built on this, and in towns and cities across the country there was a great sense that things were changing; that we could hope for a better future and have a real chance of achieving it.
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I should not be worried for my friends’ lives

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By Jack May, Joe Farnworth, Bill Cook, Kemi Butt
| Progressive Britain
Stephen Lawrence Day is a welcome memorial, but it glosses over the systemic change we need to tackle knife crime, writes Kemi Butt Living in inner city London as a young black woman has allowed me to see the true hardships we face as a city plagued by an increase in knife crime. It has also given me an insight into why gang culture has surged in the last decade and what methods I believe could be implemented to reduce the number of fatalities in the capital.
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