A 'Clause 4' proposal for David Cameron

Should grammar schools be forced to take more scholarship pupils?

The restoration of selective secondary education in Britain looks "further away than ever" after two "hammer blows from the top of the education establishment", says Richard Garner in The Independent.

First, the government rejected plans to set up a "satellite" grammar school in Sevenoaks, Kent. Then, the Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, told The Observer that he did not see selection as a way to push Britain up the international literacy and numeracy league tables.

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