| 单词 | grammar school |
| 例句 | Hazel grew up—did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn’t learn anything in either place. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After meeting a black grammar school friend of my sister’s, I remember thinking that she wasn’t really ‘black.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had taken interest tests in grammar school to indicate in what direction I should be thinking of going. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He was considered educated, having graduated from grammar school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time Mr. Kapasi had been teaching English in a grammar school, and he bartered his skills as an interpreter to pay the increasingly exorbitant medical bills. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Mary Anne Bell and Mark Fossie had been sweethearts since grammar school. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Large classes were graduating from both the grammar school and the high school. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Insatiably curious about the world, the child peppered her grammar school teachers with questions and skipped ahead from second grade to fifth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But Hoggart’s calm prose only makes me recall the urgency with which I came to idolize my grammar school teachers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As she came home from grammar school, little boys came up behind her and pushed her down to the sidewalk. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Salinas had two grammar schools, big yellow Structures with tall windows, and the windows were baleful and the doors did not smile. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Lou went to Mass every Sunday, served as an altar boy, and attended BVM’s grammar school before moving on to Father Judge High School, which had three thousand students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z With the first years of puberty, the last years of grammar school, we began hearing about ‘sins of the flesh.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Long ago, before he had even heard of grammar schools, he was entered for an exam that led him to one. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I saw a picture of the Sacred Heart in the grammar school classroom I entered two years after the priest’s visit. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My grammar school years especially were the years when the great Church doors opened to enclose me, filling my day as I was certain the Church filled all time. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a grammar school skill I acquired with comparative ease. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Half the women were younger than she, half were older; they had shared no experience that she could recall, except one female with whom she had quarreled steadily all through grammar school. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I don’t know if Maddie thought so too; she didn’t go to a Swiss boarding school, she was at a grammar school in Manchester and she certainly never thought about going to university. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “I knew my wife before we were in grammar school. She lived on the corner,” he said, pointing up the street. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z During the last three years of grammar school, I was regularly asked to ‘serve’ as an altar boy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The grammar school curriculum consisted of grammar, logic, and rhetoric—a three-part system of knowledge called “the trivium” that was regarded as the foundation of learning. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Several of the best players on that team were his grammar school classmates and fellow altar boys, and they served as his protectors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I was shocked to hear that I, who had been only to grammar school, had been classified as an intellectual. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The grammar school was on Division Street, and my mother liked to tell us we were “going to Division Street to learn division.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Felicia remembers how when she was in grammar school the paraphernalia of faith had proved more intriguing than its overwrought lessons. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Helena, a grammar school teacher in Bremen, was very unlikely to make that mistake. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Coming home from grammar school with new friends, I would hear it, its reminder: My new intimates were strangers to her. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Marian’s grammar school, like her neighborhood, was racially mixed, with black students and white students, but all the teachers were white. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z From grammar school to graduate school I could always name my reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d be Pa’s age before I ever saw the end of grammar school. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z There was more information about courses and records in grammar school and extracurricular activities but Obie closed the notebook as if he were lowering a coffin lid. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Their future rode heavily on their shoulders, and blinded them to the collective joy that had pervaded the lives of the boys and girls in the grammar school graduating class. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Confession was a regular part of my grammar school years. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even while grammar school nuns reminded me of my spiritual separateness from non-Catholics, they provided excellent public schooling. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z William had a comfortable place in a settled society and suffered none of the hardships experienced by Kepler; he studied at the local grammar school, then went up to Cambridge in 1558. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I hadn’t sat with anyone other than my friends at lunch since grammar school. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He built grammar schools into the neighborhoods because he did not believe young children should have to ride buses to school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He skipped two grades in grammar school and when he was eleven he was ready for Vocational. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I’d admit, for one thing, that I went to an excellent grammar school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to return to grammar school violence, the cherished honor of the schoolyard that wasn’t honor at all, the necessity of proving yourself by bloody noses and black eyes and broken teeth. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In his grammar school classroom, however, the boy already makes students around him uneasy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything about it was different from grammar school. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z My mother sometimes invited my grammar school friends to stay for dinner or even to stay overnight. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a friend in grammar school whose mother wore hot pants and white vinyl go-go boots just like Nancy Sinatra. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of our school's built in the last thirty years, but one part's an old grammar school from Victorian times and the Old Gym's in that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z At the end of the summer vacation he went to the seventh grade at the middle school, while I was in the sixth grade at the grammar school. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Jack Tallis was his patron, Leon and Cecilia were his best friends, at least until grammar school. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They had always played in the same gang when they were kids, but in the last three years he had been at Vocational while she was still in grammar school. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She performed well aca-demically; so well, in fact, that she was among just a few students from her grammar school fortunate enough to get admitted into Cambridge and Oxford. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z My freshman literature teacher only smiled when I mentioned the grammar school incident concerning Flaubert. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was proper bright kid—very likely goin’ to grammar school an’ all, so they told him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the grammar school ceremony several weeks after, her eyes were brighter than the trophy I’d won. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every town in Massachusetts had a grammar school, and from the age of eight, pupils there would be taught the classics from eight in the morning until dark fell. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z His mother was the principal of the Roman Catholic grammar school of the Our Lady of Sorrows parish in Manhattan before becoming a stay-at-home parent. Nancy Seem, Andrew Shanahan 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z He wrote in his spare time during 11 years teaching English in grammar schools in the West Midlands. Thriller writer Craig Thomas dies 2011-04-08T13:05:23Z The family moved to the village of Moulton in 2001, when Luke was offered a place at a nearby grammar school. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z He went to Blackpool grammar school, but his father's early death precluded his going to university. Anthony North 2012-08-16T15:45:49Z By way of a scholarship to a local grammar school in Hackney, Yudkin made it to Cambridge. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z We learn of the 195 Latin translations of “your letter pleased me greatly” that young Will studied six days a week in grammar school. Theater Review: ?Being Shakespeare? With Simon Callow at BAM 2012-04-06T21:54:30Z The years piled up, and as our children grew, Elie and I shifted from conversations about preschool to grammar school to high school. As He Cut My Hair, I Wept 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z But we went to the local grammar school. Michael Winterbottom on The Killer Inside Me 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z He did well at his Catholic grammar school, but left without taking his final exams. John Byrne: in from the margins 2011-08-17T15:00:01Z Though born in Schenectady, in New York state, Mackerras was brought up in Sydney, Australia, and went to Sydney grammar school. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z Visit the grammar school attended by Wordsworth and then take in the Beatrix Potter Gallery, where her original artwork is on display in a 17th-century house. Follow Beatrix Potter through England’s lovely Lake District 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z We charted a fishing boat in Key West, 5 grammar school buddys, 24 hours out to Dry Tortugas, 24 hours fishing in various spots around the fort, and 24 hours to return. West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z My brother was 11 and about to start grammar school. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Her early ambition was to be a writer, and she wrote her grammar school graduation play, giving herself the leading role. Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl, dies at 99 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z But we also know that students from private schools and some elite grammar schools are often coached to get through the interviewing process. Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z Ethan wants to go to a grammar school, too, so he's been doing some practice 11-plus exams. TV Review: This Is England '86 and The Big School Lottery 2010-09-07T22:03:00Z Ms. Morgenshtern and Mr. Lin’s recipe for success began in a grammar school kitchen in Brooklyn. In Cooking Class, the Right Ingredients 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z I think it reminds me of being a kid, having to read aloud in grammar school and hating it, stumbling over words, feeling judged, feeling stupid. Andrew McCarthy Harbors a Secret Fantasy to Play Fagin 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z It was at Lincoln School, their grammar school. 97-year-old actor: ‘I enjoy working with other people, particularly young — well, in my case, they’re all younger than I am’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z He attended grammar school and gained an Oxford scholarship, but this was thwarted by his national service in 1942. Jeff Keen 2012-06-24T15:35:14Z His mother was a guidance counselor at the Sheridan School, a grammar school in Washington, and his father was an analyst at Fannie Mae, also in Washington. Sarah Schrag, William Adler 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Pip colluded with a governess to coach her secretly for the entrance examination for Penzance county girls' grammar school. Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-09-16T18:15:00Z There were only four kids in my class who were even allowed to sit it, and two of us passed and went to grammar school. A life in writing: Ian Kershaw 2011-08-17T11:00:01Z Elderly private donors are not being replaced by “the first generation of college graduates that did not receive a solid arts education in grammar school.” Can arts organizations survive in the current economy? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z If you didn't get into the grammar school, your academic career would almost certainly fade fast. Ken Loach: 'the ruling class are cracking the whip' 2011-08-28T18:00:02Z He went to the local grammar school and joined the Royal Artillery towards the end of the second world war. Paul Foote obituary 2011-04-05T17:45:40Z They started playing guitars in the music department of Bangor grammar school, and when everyone else went to the cinema at weekends, they stayed at home writing songs. How Two Door Cinema Club became shock blockbusters 2010-12-16T22:55:01Z I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!' 2011-03-03T21:31:00Z Now 14, he attends a grammar school with support. My son was diagnosed with autism at five. Did he inherit it from my misunderstood mother? 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z In 1938, after the early death of his mother, he was sent to board at Toowoomba grammar school, which he later described as resembling a prison camp. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z His father, an impoverished intellectual, taught at a mediocre grammar school that had the misfortune to be not far from Marlborough College, an elite private school. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z Abbey lists her interests as architecture, space exploration, inventing and home science experiments, and is hoping for a place at grammar school next year. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z At grammar school in the 1960s, Trimpin learned nothing of this, or of Germany's horrific "Final Solution" campaign that annihilated 6 million European Jews during World War II. Trimpin's new work evokes images, survivors' memories of Holocaust 2012-05-15T03:02:05Z Anyway, not long after I'd started at the grammar school they took the old folk on an outing to Blackpool to see the illuminations which meant my mum staying away. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z They also went to the same grammar school, and in September 2015, they ran into each other in Cambridge. Emily Hanno, Elías Sánchez-Eppler 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z He left the local grammar school garlanded with prizes, and went to Oxford with an open scholarship to study classics. A Worcestershire lad 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z He was a bright, shrewd man who had passed the grammar school exam but didn’t go, because his mother couldn’t afford the uniform. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z He went to St Albans grammar school for boys, and then to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the mid-1960s, where he read modern languages, directed plays and became president of the amateur dramatic club. Malcolm Griffiths obituary 2010-12-02T18:18:00Z After grammar school, he went to Oxford University where he read law. Q&A: Ken Loach 2012-06-01T21:09:01Z Porter was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was educated initially at the Church of England grammar school there. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z Educated at Grangefield grammar school, he excelled as a quarter-miler on the athletics track and as a footballer, and his love of sport never left him. Charlie Gillett obituary 2010-03-17T19:09:00Z He won a scholarship to attend one of Barbados’s three grammar schools, where an English teacher, Frank Collymore, who also edited the island’s leading literary magazine, introduced him to writing. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z To the headmistress of our all-girls grammar school, fashion was at odds with high-mindedness. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z Brooks also states as fact that “Shakespeare was a grammar school graduate.” On Hamlet’s Origins and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z I count myself less a child of the Elizabethan age than a child of the 1944 Education Act, which gave a free grammar school education to those selected at 11. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z It was a bright, sunny day at my girls’ grammar school in 1983. Experience: I killed my classmate with a javelin on sports day 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z This month brings two major revivals of Alan Bennett's hit play, set among the sixth-form boys at a northern grammar school in the 1980s. Sherlock Holmes, The History Boys, Race: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-18T05:00:15Z Like many high achievers of his generation, Neil was a grammar school boy and he made a straight correlation between the arrival of comprehensive secondary education and the rebirth of the English political elite. TV review: Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Rule Britain and Great White Silence 2011-01-27T07:59:01Z Born Joyce User in London, she left grammar school aged 14 and attended Workers' Education Association evening classes. Joyce Robertson obituary 2013-05-19T11:56:05Z Classics - the study of the languages, society and history of ancient Greece and Rome - was part of the grammar school curriculum. Classic tales 2010-04-07T08:34:00Z Sarandon is from a working-class New Jersey family, the oldest of nine children, who was sent to a Catholic grammar school and told early on that she had “an overabundance of original sin”. Susan Sarandon: ‘The good news and bad news about Hollywood is that they’re not political’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z We'd been at High Moor Primary together before we'd gone to the grammar school and he knew I wasn't good at art. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z When the time came to leave primary school and move on to grammar school I knew I had to solve the problem or go down fighting. Stammering: lost for words 2011-01-09T20:29:00Z "I went to a grammar school and had always worked hard. I walked into medical school," he says. Why doctors hide their own illnesses 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Shakespeare was a grammar school graduate, the eldest son of a glove maker in declining fortune. Shakespeare Lost His Son to Plague. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z She is "numerically dyslexic", she says, but managed to get into a girls' grammar school. Alex Kingston: 'Lady Macbeth freaked me out' 2013-06-19T18:30:05Z The foundations of his love for theatre and the arts were laid at Abeokuta grammar school. Yemi Ajibade obituary 2013-04-18T16:57:15Z Madison Marlow and Taylor Dye, both 19, were in grammar school eight years ago. At the Fillmore, Maddie & Tae show what country girls are really like 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z "Growing up in the Boroughs I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school." Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z Lee Hall Alan and I were educated at the Kingston high school, Hull, then a grammar school. Appreciations: Alan Plater obituary 2010-06-27T17:14:00Z Easy to see how a play about a northern grammar school has resonance, I say, but why that Shakespeare in particular? A life in theatre: Nicholas Hytner 2010-10-18T07:00:00Z Mr. Alpert said the trumpet he picked up in grammar school “had taken me so many places in my life. I think every kid should have that opportunity at an early age.” With Help From Herb Alpert, Letting the Light In at the Harlem School of the Arts 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z I never quite fitted into my Belfast grammar school. My parents sent me to Russia for a month, aged 13 – never again 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z He was educated at Manchester grammar school and at commercial college and art school in Liverpool. Tony Banfield obituary 2010-07-27T17:31:00Z Early sexualization of young girls and grammar school kids being overly concerned with brands are just two of the innumerable specific elements of the much-bemoaned "Kids Getting Older Younger" trend that are widely written about. Motherlode Blog: Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures of Our Children 2012-10-12T15:55:46Z The setting is the coastal village of Rye, where young Beatrice Nash has been hired to teach Latin at the local grammar school. A novel to cure your ‘Downton Abbey’ withdrawal: ‘The Summer Before the War’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Balcon was the son of South African emigres; he was Jewish; he was a grammar school boy from Birmingham. The troubled heart of Ealing and British postwar cinema 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z By the time he was 19, he had had at least 11 different addresses and had attended five different grammar schools. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z He and his wife, who also quit grammar school, were determined that their sons, including Colin, would be well educated. Colin Dexter, British author who created the Inspector Morse series, dies at 86 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z A fat, brainy kid who got beat up in grammar school, Lipsyte majored in English at Columbia University and wanted to be a novelist. Former New York Times sportswriter pens memoir 2011-05-02T11:35:11Z She was a working-class London grammar school child and an avid reader. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Thanks to his father’s determination that David not follow him into the coal mines, he was educated at a prestigious local grammar school and, it seemed, was destined to become a teacher. David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Robinson Jr attended what he later remembered as the highly competitive Raynes Park grammar school. Robert Robinson: tributes paid to doyen of the quiz show 2011-08-13T18:05:32Z Disillusioned with education after a miserable time at grammar school, Gleitzman had stopped reading books when he hit 14 and discovered girls, then quit school after O-Levels. Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books' 2010-10-01T12:04:00Z The oldest of four daughters — and two sets of twins — she attended public grammar school and a private Catholic high school. Meet the museum director behind the Hirshhorn’s Kusama show 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Born in South Shields just before the second world war, Scott is a self-made man and non-believer, who progressed from grammar school to art college and so to Soho. Ridley Scott on making blockbusters: ‘It is bloody brain surgery!’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z After all that, the Uppity Socialist Schoolteacher is just going to leave and go to a grammar school in Preston? Downton Abbey recap: series five, episode five – a sedate echo of previous plots 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z She attended the Skinners' Company's grammar school for girls in Hackney, and then went on to Coventry Training College, where she did her teacher-training and discover- ed pottery for the first time. Suzanne Lang obituary 2011-03-28T17:19:13Z He didn't get to go to university because he was forced to do a job as soon as he left grammar school. Nick Moran 2013-02-08T13:30:01Z From Vilnius, Ray and I traveled as honorary guests to Šukoniai, the northern town where our grandfather was born, to see the grammar school named after him. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z She and I talked through grammar school and then high school. The One Thing We Couldn’t Talk About 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z When he left Stockton grammar school, he announced that he wanted to be a journalist. Barry Unsworth obituary 2012-06-08T17:14:33Z I’ve been doing them since grammar school, then in summer stock. 'Spamilton' creator on loving Lin-Manuel Miranda and spoofing his musical at the same time 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z He was the first of his family to go to grammar school, and from there to Oxford. Alan Garner: a life in books 2012-08-17T21:45:03Z He went to Kilburn grammar school, north-west London, arriving with a trumpet in his pocket and soon displaying artistic abilities. Paul Kriwaczek obituary 2011-03-17T19:00:53Z I wouldn't have got that at grammar school. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z The beginning salary of grammar school teachers is $1,500. A Chance Discovery Uncovered the Remarkable Life of One of the First Female Oceanographers 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Previously known as Harry Vaughan, he is the son of a House of Lords clerk and achieved high grades at his prestigious grammar school. Harry Blake: Paedophile jailed on terror and indecent image charges 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z He will also participate in a traditional Maori welcome ceremony and deliver remarks on gender equity and sports at a girls’ grammar school. Biden dispatches second gentleman Doug Emhoff to New Zealand for Women’s World Cup, agenda meetings 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z A retired grammar school teacher died after allegedly being pushed in the street in a row over Welsh independence, a court heard. Burry Port: Teacher dies after fall in row over Welsh independence 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z “We want boys to carry the umbrella for girls and open doors for them … and we want to start teaching that in grammar school.” Charter school lost case over skirts rule for girls, but debate over charter autonomy isn’t over 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z She attended the local grammar school, leaving at 16 to work at Boots. Glenda Jackson obituary: 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Brouwer was a grammar school girl, studying A Levels, but with no interest in going to university. The girl in the Gang - being Wimbledon's physio 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z In early Rome, children were educated in the home; later, grammar schools enrolled boys and girls from wealthy families until around the age of twelve. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But she grew up in Essex, to the east of the UK capital, where she attended a grammar school before reading business law at Coventry University. Robyn Grew, the trusted insider to lead Man Group hedge fund 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The state-funded selective grammar school has about 60 boys in years 12 and 13, but none in lower year groups. Southend grammar school installs cameras in toilets 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z After two years at the town's grammar school, he took up an apprenticeship in retail pharmacy run by his local Boots. March marks centenary of the birth of ibuprofen creator 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z They had both won scholarships to their local grammar school and then gone on to Cambridge before moving to London to become teachers and joining the middle class. Dame Mary Quant: Pioneer of 60s high street fashion 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z There are also other types of schools, such as Irish medium schools or voluntary grammar schools. Divided education and schools cost £226m extra a year - report 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z On American grammar school campuses, 75 people have been killed or injured by gunfire so far this year. Perspective | One Va. official says drag queens hurt kids. She’s missing the real threat. 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “I went to grammar school with Lucille Ball’s daughter, Dean Martin’s son, but I have to say it was a pretty normal upbringing aside from the fact their parents were famous,” Hersholt said. Longtime broadcast journalists Herb Weisbaum and Gregg Hersholt sign off the airwaves 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z In 2016, when we looked at the admission policies of all 163 grammar schools the majority gave no priority to poorer children in allocating places. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z In comparison to Morgan's grammar school upbringing, Trubshaw came from an aristocratic family and attended Winchester College. Concorde: The Welshmen who got supersonic jets airborne 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Sandon came to Worcester to teach at the city's grammar school and sing in Worcester Cathedral choir. Antiques Roadshow star Henry Sandon to sell collection 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z At grammar school in Glossop, she saw herself " a kind of champion." Dame Vivienne Westwood - the godmother of punk 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The scrapping of the bill is likely to disappoint Conservative MPs who had hoped to use it to overturn a ban on new grammar schools. Schools Bill scrapped, education secretary says 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z A third of grammar schools now have online practice tests available to make it easier for those who don't have access to private tutoring, the Grammar School Heads Association says. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z They found that transfer tests and the grammar school system "disadvantages the already most disadvantaged". Transfer test: Academic selection 'perpetuates divisions' 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Hank drove the kids to grammar school each day. Rick Caruso’s dad made two fortunes, did jail time. How he shaped his son's ambitions 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z During the last leadership campaign, he supported the creation of more selective grammar schools after new ones were banned by the opposition Labour Party, but repeatedly said "a world class education" should be a birthright. Swift rise to PM, but some doubt Rishi Sunak can win UK elections 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Born in Salford in 1967, Sir Graham first became active in the Conservative Party aged just 16 when - as a grammar school pupil - he joined a campaign to save local grammar schools. Graham Brady: The man who sees off Tory prime ministers 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z She said the evidence was "very, very clear" that children in grammar schools areas who don't get a place have reduced opportunities. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z There will then be further tests, used by grammar schools to select pupil, on subsequent Saturdays. Transfer test: Academic selection 'perpetuates divisions' 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z A third of young Americans — the ones who grew up playacting their own massacres during grammar school active-shooter drills — say they have experienced gun violence personally. Perspective | Sick of hoping politicians will act, Gen Z decides to make guns uncool 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Gillian Marshall, executive principal at the state grammar school, said all "students have been accounted for and are safe" and that those taken to hospital were accompanied by staff. Colchester school bus crash: Driver in hospital but students 'safe' 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z In his maiden speech, he outlined his passion once again for grammar schools. Graham Brady: The man who sees off Tory prime ministers 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z She added that "structural reform" of the kind that would see the status of grammar schools threatened was not a policy priority for Labour. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z They said the grammar school system "may act to increase the likelihood of intergroup tension and violence". Transfer test: Academic selection 'perpetuates divisions' 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The Cambridge grammar school boy got the Friday afternoon off to see the Rolling Stones in Ipswich on 9 October 1964 - on condition he wrote an essay about it. Rolling Stones: 'I got out of school to review 1964 Ipswich gig' 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Ms Truss has previously suggested she will lift the ban on opening new grammar schools in England. Minister Kit Malthouse 'surprised' at market reaction to tax cuts 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z And even when she moved on to a grammar school aged 11, because of the pandemic restrictions, school days were relatively calm. School fines: Lottery for parents with absent children 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The Department for Education told us they were working to encourage "all schools including grammar schools" to do more to increase access for disadvantaged children. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z At age 11 she was enrolled in a prestigious English grammar school where she was one of just two girls allowed to study chemistry. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Deprived of educational opportunities themselves, his parents pushed him into a grammar school, which he hated. In Memoriam: James Lovelock (1919-2022) 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Stacey, a mother of three, described the uniform she had to buy for her oldest son to attend grammar school as "extortionate". Cost of living: Simple uniforms to help save parents money 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Ms McCausland said specific colours and certain materials for uniforms, particularly in grammar school, could create an added cost. Cost of living: Families in NI 'should have more choice' on school uniforms 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Data excludes three grammar schools that have not taken children from 11-15 for the entire period covered. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z She said: "I want people around the country to have the choice that we have to be able to send our daughters to a grammar school." Conservative leadership: How will the next prime minister deal with possible Tory flashpoints? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z She also indicated she would end a ban on new grammar schools in England. Rishi Sunak pledges NHS no-show fines as Liz Truss vows school reform 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Asked if he was in favour of the return of grammar schools, he replied: "Yes". Defence Secretary Ben Wallace endorses Liz Truss for PM 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z While Ms Truss wasn't asked about grammar schools, she previously suggested she would lift the ban while speaking to Conservative MPs, Sky News reported. Tory leadership latest: Sunak says yes to return of grammar schools 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z A quarter of England's state grammar schools still let in hardly any poorer children, despite most trying to improve their admissions policies, according to BBC analysis. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The opening of new grammar schools in England is banned - but current ones can be expanded. Conservative leadership: How will the next prime minister deal with possible Tory flashpoints? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The school sector with the highest proportion is grammar schools, where about a third of teachers are male. Northern Ireland schools: Proportion of male teachers continues to fall 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z By his account, he had little motivation to succeed academically and was forced out of grammar school. Hermann Nitsch, Austrian artist of the avant-garde, dies at 83 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Under a 1998 law no new grammar schools can be opened, and no schools cannot select pupils by their grades. Tory leadership latest: Sunak says yes to return of grammar schools 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Out of 160 grammar schools, 112 now have quotas or give high priority to disadvantaged children - but the impact is patchy. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z But his team have clarified that he doesn't mean opening new ones - instead he back "expanding existing grammar schools in local areas which are wholly-selective." Conservative leadership: How will the next prime minister deal with possible Tory flashpoints? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Debris fell on pedestrians in the heavily traveled area and glass and debris went flying at a nearby grammar school. Grim search in blown-out Havana hotel, death toll at 26 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Etched into its spine is a statement from Dylan’s Nobel lecture: “I had principles and sensibilities and an informed view of the world. Learned it all in grammar school.” One Fan’s Search for Seeds of Greatness in Bob Dylan’s Hometown But more children have attended grammar schools in recent years, with existing schools still allowed to expand to accommodate more pupils. Tory leadership latest: Sunak says yes to return of grammar schools 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The concern that grammar schools have become the preserve of better-off families has led to pressure for change. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Philip Drew, 62, is on a mission to make his board at a boys' grammar school in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, more inclusive. 'We need more school governors who look like me' 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z A teacher has been suspended from a top state grammar school after allegedly using a mug with a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on it. Colchester grammar teacher suspended over Prophet Muhammad mug 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The Governing Bodies Association, which represents 50 voluntary grammar schools in Northern Ireland, has said it has "serious concerns" about the bill. Fair employment legislation: Bishop backs ending teacher exemption 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z But there was opposition from many grammar schools and educationalists to the scrapping of the exam and unofficial tests were set up in 2009 by private companies without the involvement of the Department of Education. Transfer tests: P7 pupils set to receive results in Saturday's post 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z For every grammar school pupil, roughly three more go to nearby secondary modern schools. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Primary and grammar schools had the highest number of pupils in school during the week beginning Monday 10 January. Pupil absence rate in NI schools lowest since mid-November 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z In 1966, when Brooks was starting grammar school, Indiana state highway officials decided to create a freeway around the city's downtown. To skirt air pollution oversight, states can play hide and seek 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z A single common transfer test is due to go ahead in November 2023 after an overwhelming majority of grammar schools backed it. Transfer tests: P7 pupils sit first exams to be held in two years 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z A single common post-primary transfer test is set to go ahead in November 2023 after an overwhelming majority of grammar schools backed it. NI grammar schools back post-primary common transfer test 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Seven years ago, the BBC found that most grammar schools did not have policies aimed at making it easier for children from the poorest families to get a place. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Kit Kita was in grammar school when her parents moved, during the war, from Connecticut to Philadelphia, where they operated a bar in Northern Liberties. During WWII, getting the flu vaccine was patriotic. Some no longer view science that way 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Her daughter may not have been able to go to grammar school without the extra cash. Universal Credit reduction: 'I feel overwhelmed' at financial impact 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z But some critics have queried this and raised questions about the grammar school he attended that became a fee-paying school during his time there. Labour conference: People assume Sir Keir Starmer is a posh bloke - top aide 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z They are almost all grammar schools, but the integrated schools Lagan College and Slemish College have also previously used transfer tests to select around a third of new pupils. NI grammar schools back post-primary common transfer test 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z If you live in an area with grammar schools you can find out more by looking them up here: Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z A move to run a single common transfer test from 2023 for primary school pupils moving to grammar schools has been criticised by a Catholic bishop. Transfer test plan criticised by Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z He piloted a model of this in Liverpool and wants to see this type of hybrid of grammar schools and funded places in independent schools used more widely. 'Only way you'll get to Oxford is on a bus' 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z High school and grammar school was ... it just felt like it was not easy. How John McEnroe landed the unlikeliest role of his career 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z For the first time in decades grammar schools did not use transfer tests to decide which pupils to admit in 2021. Number of appeals over post-primary places rise by 200% 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The King Edward VI grammar schools in Birmingham are among the few to have achieved radical changes, by introducing a quota of 25% of places for pupils from the lowest income families. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The plan by a group of 15 current and former grammar school principals was revealed by BBC News NI on Wednesday. Transfer test plan criticised by Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Along with her sister, Ms Leadbeater attended the primary school and then the grammar school in Heckmondwike, before working in local shops and subsequently becoming an exercise instructor. Kim Leadbeater: Sister of Jo Cox is new Batley and Spen MP 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z For the first time in decades grammar schools did not use transfer tests to decide which pupils to admit. School transfer process in NI has 'totally failed' pupils 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z BBC News NI understands that a number of grammar schools are significantly oversubscribed. Transfer tests: More than 23,500 children find out school places 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z She thinks it's important grammar schools are not just "a privilege of the middle and upper classes" because pupils from a wider range of backgrounds have a lot to offer. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z BBC News NI understands that the majority of grammar schools have already agreed to the plans but a minority remain opposed. Transfer test plan criticised by Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Fox News: How did you manage to survive the trauma that is "Old Yeller"? Washburn: *Laughs* I never really understood how they showed that movie in grammar school so many times. ‘50s child star Beverly Washburn recalls filming Disney’s ‘Old Yeller’: ‘It destroyed’ grown men 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z When she left grammar school in Enniskillen, the future Mrs Foster became the first member of her family to go to university, studying law at Queen's University, Belfast. Arlene Foster: From trailblazing leader to party civil war 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Pena insists that his path to success, power, and money started in grammar school, when he was forced to wear a dunce hat. How a scrappy Chicano from L.A. came to own a Scottish castle 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z ZamZam, who is 16 and hoping to study medicine, says going to grammar school has given her more self belief than her siblings, who have attended non-selective schools. Grammar schools still failing to boost number of poorer pupils 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The Catholic Church opposes academic selection in Northern Ireland but Catholic grammar schools continue to use the transfer test system. Transfer test plan criticised by Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z As education minister between 1976 to 1979 in the Labour government of James Callaghan, Williams oversaw the growth of comprehensive schools and was known for her opposition to academically selective grammar schools. Shirley Williams, co-founder of UK's Social Democratic Party, dies aged 90 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z She was convinced that comprehensive education should play a major part in creating a more inclusive society, and set about the task of abolishing grammar schools with a single-minded enthusiasm. Obituary: Shirley Williams 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z A few grammar schools have also already said they would not use transfer tests in 2021 to select pupils due to the disruption to the education of children currently in Primary Six. Covid-19: All NI pupils return to school after Easter break 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z High up on the opposite side of the valley to the grammar school, Abdul Ravat sits with his youngest daughter underneath a blossoming cherry tree in the afternoon sun. Batley Grammar School: Blasphemy debate leaves town 'at crossroads' 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z "Unlike most other countries we think we have to have grammar schools, which are for good pupils, and the rest of the schools for everybody else," he said. Transfer test plan criticised by Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The diocese also decided to close seven grammar schools over the past year amid declining enrollment and revenue. Long Island diocese sells headquarters amid bankruptcy 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Despite her love of books, she was placed into lower reading circles in grammar schools, which sparked lifelong sympathy from struggling readers. Beverly Cleary, legendary children's book author and creator of Ramona Quimby, dead at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The discussion paper also recommended that the autumn tests continue to be held in grammar schools rather than primary schools, as some primaries would not be willing to host the tests. Schools consider 'radical change' to transfer tests 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z BRA was one of the first grammar schools to decide not to use the AQE test to admit pupils this year. Belfast Royal Academy changes admissions criteria 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z "We think it's a very positive thing that grammar schools are going to work collectively." Transfer test plan criticised by Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Young Tom attended Keighley grammar school before starting an apprenticeship with a civil engineering firm. Tom Moore, British army officer knighted for charitable work, dies at 100 of coronavirus 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Bright enough to win a place at grammar school, he found he enjoyed working with his hands more than reading books. Obituary: Tom Moore, a hero who gave a nation hope 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The vast majority of grammar schools will not use academic criteria in 2021 despite the cancellation of transfer tests, which they normally use to select pupils. Education minister to outline grading for GCSE, AS and A-Levels 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z As a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are having to draw up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021. Transfer test: Most grammar schools not using academic selection 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Attention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils. Covid-19: Schools get more time to decide on admission criteria 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Post-primary transfer tests are used to select pupils by the majority of NI grammar schools. Covid-19: February AQE transfer test had been cancelled 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z There has been intense debate this week about the academic selection process for Northern Ireland grammar schools. Transfer test: Business interest should not dominate debate, says bishop 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z It is used by the majority of Northern Ireland grammar schools to select pupils. Transfer test: Clashes over plans for test in February 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z It is believed the majority of grammar schools will use a similar approach. Transfer test: Most grammar schools not using academic selection 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z It is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021. Covid-19: Schools get more time to decide on admission criteria 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z The issue has split the main political parties at Stormont, who already take different views about the use of academic selection for grammar schools in Northern Ireland. AQE transfer test: Ministers meeting over test postponed 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z A small number of grammar schools that would typically use it to select their pupils for the following academic year have since decided not to proceed with it in 2021. Transfer test: Business interest should not dominate debate, says bishop 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Some grammar schools have already published criteria for how they would admit pupils if the transfer test does not take place. Transfer test: Clashes over plans for test in February 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z The tests are used to select pupils by the majority of NI grammar schools. Covid-19: Post-primary transfer tests cancelled in Northern Ireland 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z UUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place. Covid-19: Schools get more time to decide on admission criteria 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Ulster Unionist MLA Robbie Butler has proposed a "hybrid system" for this year, suggesting pupils' scores from their best two mock papers and previous attainment records should be used as criteria by grammar schools. AQE transfer test: Ministers meeting over test postponed 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday. Covid-19: NI transfer test announcements expected 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The transfer tests are used by many grammar schools to select pupils, and about 8,000 children are due to sit the AQE tests. Transfer test: Pupils to sit AQE test on 9 January 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z They said that they would now consult with the 34 grammar schools who use their tests on a way forward. Covid-19: Post-primary transfer tests cancelled in Northern Ireland 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z However, some grammar schools have already outlined how they will admit pupils using "Covid-19 criteria" if transfer tests are cancelled. Covid-19: School return expected to be delayed for many pupiils 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z However, not all grammar schools will use the same criteria in the same order as their individual Boards of Governors decide which are most important. Transfer test: Some schools set out Covid mitigations 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z In a statement, they said grammar schools had been administering the tests for many years and that the minister's suggestion was "irrational, impractical and untimely". Coronavirus: Remote learning possible for some secondary pupils 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z But if that happens, they are advising parents to check the grammar school admissions criteria as a child who sits only one test may have to apply on the basis of "special circumstances". Transfer test: Pupils to sit AQE test on 9 January 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Children normally take the test in the grammar school they wish to attend. Covid-19: Peter Weir to make assembly statement on school plans 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z The 2021 transfer tests used by many grammar schools to select pupils are due to begin in early January. Post-primary transfer included in NI education review 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z In the 1980s, Weeks spent seven years in grammar school at The Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans. New Orleans considers ban on natural hair discrimination 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z He was bemused by that calling, spawned in his grammar school years in New Jersey. Tom Heinsohn, Champion Celtic as Player and Coach, Is Dead at 86 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z However, AQE said if a child was only able to sit one paper, they would be still be awarded a standardised result which could be used to apply for a grammar school. Transfer test: Pupils to sit AQE test on 9 January 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z The separate transfer tests are used by the vast majority of grammar schools to select pupils. Coronavirus: Transfer test pupils to be seated in class 'bubbles' 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Archbishop Gregory, who did not come from a Catholic background, converted as a child after he began attending a Catholic grammar school in Chicago. Pope Francis Appoints First African-American Cardinal 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z His father ,who worked as an upholsterer, lost his job, and the family moved to Oswestry, Shropshire, where Bough attended the local grammar school. Obituary: Frank Bough 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z The parish runs a grammar school that, according to its website, teaches that "homosexual behavior" is an offense against the Sixth and Ninth Commandment. Barrett failed to disclose leadership role in local Catholic church 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The tests are mainly held in grammar schools and a number of safety measures are due to be in place for them. Transfer test: Pupils to sit AQE test on 9 January 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z None of the 34 grammar schools which use AQE tests though have decided to stop using academic selection for a year. Coronavirus: Transfer test pupils to be seated in class 'bubbles' 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z The transfer tests are used by almost all grammar schools to select pupils. Covid-19: Transfer test causing 'extreme concern' to parents 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z "Concrete geometry" would be part of grammar school mathematics and combined with drawing. Should high schools teach data science instead of calculus? 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Born in Belfast, McBratney went to grammar school and then to Trinity College, Dublin, before working as a teacher at a further education college, a grammar school and a primary school. Guess How Much I Love You author Sam McBratney dies aged 77 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z However, the transfer tests are controversial and 11 Catholic grammar schools and the integrated school, Lagan College, have said they will not use them to select pupils in 2021. Transfer test: Pupils to sit AQE test on 9 January 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Attendance in that first full week was highest in grammar schools, with 94.2% of pupils in school. Almost a tenth of pupils did not attend first week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Cross was born in London and began acting at an early age in grammar school plays and he was accepted to London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, according to Deadline. Ben Cross, 'Star Trek' and 'Chariots of Fire' actor, dead at 72 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z I remember that I saw the biggest rat I’ve ever conceived of in the alley between our hotel and the grammar school next door. We know quite a bit about the memorable Singapore Sling — except how, exactly, to make one 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Returning to Derry, he taught at a Catholic grammar school, organized credit unions and in 1960 married Patricia Hone, who gave up her teaching career to support Mr. Hume’s political work. John Hume, Nobel laureate who championed peace in Northern Ireland, dies at 83 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Post-war education reforms enabled him to win a scholarship to the local grammar school and he trained briefly for the priesthood, before returning to work as a teacher. Obituary: John Hume 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z They’d started talking to their parents and teachers about the names of their winding streets and verdant cul-de-sacs when they were still in grammar school, after learning about the Civil War in their classes. Perspective | Change the world? Two students start with their neighborhood and find it’s not so neighborly. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Around 30 other grammar schools in Northern Ireland use the transfer test set by AQE to admit pupils. Transfer test scrapped by five grammar schools 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Bishop McKeown also said that he would be happy to discuss a way ahead with the grammar schools in the diocese. Archbishop appeals to suspend transfer tests 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Most grammar schools in Northern Ireland have been using one or both tests to select pupils since 2008. Post-primary transfer tests delayed by two weeks 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z His rhetorical skills — probably honed where they evidently peaked, on grammar school playgrounds — are emulated by his campaign in references to “Beijing Biden.” Opinion | Only one of these candidates is actually able to stand up to China 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z What: Wize, officially Wizedemy, is an online education and tutoring platform for all topics, grammar school through college, that allows tutors to set their own rates and keep 100% of what they earn. Review: Wize, a new online platform, needs tutors for dozens of subjects 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z She went to grammar school with Hogan and remembers him and his mother, who still lives in Fort Worth, attending a music recital she had a part in. From The Archive: Ben Hogan Today - Golf Digest 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z However, he urged grammar schools in his diocese not to use selection to admit pupils in September 2021. Archbishop appeals to suspend transfer tests 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The transfer tests are used by the vast majority of grammar schools in Northern Ireland to select pupils and there were about 16,000 entrants in 2019/20. Post-primary transfer tests delayed by two weeks 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z He also made his reference to Shakespeare, in fact the son of a glover who received a grammar school education but no more. Elon Musk says college is 'basically for fun and not for learning' 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z At 11 I went to a girls’ grammar school where sport was valued, even if we were forced to do our physical jerks in pleated games skirts and/or grey knickers. International Women’s Day is a time to recognise how far equality has come 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z He was born in Watford and educated at a local grammar school, before going on to Manchester Polytechnic to study business and finance. Cabinet reshuffle: Who is in Boris Johnson's new cabinet? 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z “It’s why I stood up in grammar school, made faces and wrote filthy things on the blackboard. But once you get past that, the actual craft is there — and that becomes the fun.” Orson Bean, droll actor, comedian and raconteur, dies at 91 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z “We were very fortunate to have gone to grammar school together, to high school together, to college and we’re still friends all these years,” McLeod said. Lifelong friends, former LSU roommates reminisce on history 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z On Twitter, he recalled playing Santa Claus in his grammar school’s holiday show. New England Patriots' Chase Winovich pays off lunch debts for Pennsylvania school district 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The sixth form student from Bristol grammar school was found unconscious and unresponsive at a hotel where the touring party was staying, on 19 December. British teenager dies during school trip to New York 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Although the vast majority of grammar schools do use academic selection tests, a voluntary grammar is ultimately defined by its management structure. Evangelical church plans to open grammar school 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The daughter of a former NHS nurse, Holloway is a grammar school girl who went to Cambridge and then worked on economic policy with a variety of businesses. The challengers: six candidates out to topple the big names of UK politics 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z I presented a lot of gold and platinum discs to the Whitney Houston Academy of Performing Arts, which is the grammar school that she attended. Robyn Crawford opens up about relationship with Whitney Houston 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z McCormac said that the crash occurred "right around the corner from a grammar school" and that a 6-year-old girl, fortunately in class at the time, escaped injury. Pilot killed in New Jersey crash was cardiologist heading to New York City lecture, officials say 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The eldest of 11 children, Seidel had been forced to go to work after grammar school. Opinion | The City Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Would Have Loved to Live In 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z An evangelical church schools' network plans to open a voluntary grammar school in Northern Ireland. Evangelical church plans to open grammar school 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The affected test was the entrance exam for 13 grammar schools in the county. 'Solution agreed' after 'impossible' 11-Plus exam 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z After my first day there I cried because I was the only person there who wasn't from private or grammar school and who couldn't afford to stay in a hotel overnight. The homeless teen who studied by candlelight 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z He barely bothered to canvass beyond public school alumni and was defeated by a slick Liberal grammar school boy. The 10 ages of Boris Johnson: a guide to his road to power 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z The son of a grammar school shop teacher, he honed his game at Rathmore and on the adjoining Royal Portrush links. A homecoming for McDowell, the golfing son of Portrush 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z The two existing schools would combine to become a voluntary grammar school for 100 pupils aged 11-18. Evangelical church plans to open grammar school 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Brynteg, a former grammar school with a proud reputation, was obsessed with rugby to the point of mania. Cult of Clive: Art teacher and 'sex abuser' 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z But among the elite, the comprehensive school is a minority background, where independent and grammar schools are more usual. Private school and Oxbridge 'take top jobs' 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z “I coached thousands and thousands of kids from grammar school to college,” he says. Is he a record-setting marathon runner, or a cheater? 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris A murderous revenge is being plotted against the boys’ grammar school in the north of England where eccentric Latin master Roy Straitley is contemplating retirement. From Agatha Christie to Gillian Flynn: 50 great thrillers by women 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z She was a grammar school girl, so it raised a few eyebrows that she’d hooked up with a tattooed Irish sailor who could hardly read and write. People assume I'm middle class – don't they know I grew up playing darts? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Although she was “quite clever”, she was “no good at formal education”, and hated her girls’ grammar school in Bristol: “It was like a prison to me ... the most unhappy time of my life.” Tessa Hadley: ‘Long marriages are interesting. You either hang on or you don't' 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Wealthy gallery owner Zachary, a jovial bear of a man, is husband to the flamboyant yet oddly passive Lydia, Christine’s best friend since grammar school. ‘Late in the Day’ draws an empathetic portrait of late middle age 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z In recent years, teams have been set up in Catholic grammar schools too. How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z On graduation he began acting in various repertory companies and secured a short attachment as an English teacher in a London grammar school. Obituary: Richard Baker 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z He grew up near Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, and in grammar school he began writing stories that he would perform for his mother. Ghetto Film School Trains Its Lens on Hollywood’s Diversity Problem 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Plomin uses a data set of mostly white British twins, most of whom attended English grammar schools. Genetic determinism rides again 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z It also was the earliest surviving grammar school for African Americans and the first one built roughly on par with the white schools at the time. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A historic first is overlooked, and an undignified funeral reference 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z These were men nurtured since early childhood for their sporting talent at preparatory and grammar schools, where skill at rugby is valued more highly than any other ability. How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Academically gifted, Baker won a place at grammar school before going to Peterhouse College, Cambridge, to read history and modern languages. Obituary: Richard Baker 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Currently in-school coaching is banned, in an attempt to level the playing field for grammar school access across independent and state primaries. Council confirms 11+ coaching ban review 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z In-school coaching is not allowed by the council, to level the playing field for grammar school access across independent and state primaries. Call for 11+ coaching ban to be reviewed 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Born in 1942 to Conservative-voting, working class parents, Mr Field attended a London grammar school and then Hull University, graduating with a degree in economics and politics. Profile: Who is Frank Field? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z I remember learning in grammar school that the first $1 billion U.S. corporation was U.S. Perspective | Apple makes history by hitting the $1 trillion cap. How high could it go? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z And by 2021, the data suggests, the number of extra places created will be equivalent to 24 new grammar schools compared with eight years ago. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know this morning 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z It also attacks her backing of causes "not compatible with Labour core beliefs" such as fox hunting, "elitist grammar schools", and her chairmanship of the Countryside Alliance. Kate Hoey vows to fight deselection 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The best performers will be offered places at grammar schools, which generally outperform their non-selective counterparts. Call for 11+ coaching ban to be reviewed 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z She left for the prestigious selective grammar school Latymer, which was more tolerant. Lily Cole: why I made a film about 'violent, awful' Heathcliff 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Here are the grammar school generation fallen among idiotic old duffers; Funny Young Men. Has fiction lost its sense of humour? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Former pupils of grammar schools, and parents of current students, share their views of an often divisive issue. Grammar schools: Empowering or elitist? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z On average 2.6% of grammar school children received free school meals compared with 13.4% of children across all state secondary schools. Reality Check: Do grammar schools help poor children? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Like many Industry kids, she went to the Hollywood Schoolhouse, a pricey private grammar school known for progressiveness and famous parents, before moving on to Immaculate Heart Middle and High School, also in Hollywood. When Harry Met Meghan: the royal wedding is the perfect Hollywood ending for a very Hollywood story 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z When she was allowed to leave the refugee camp to attend a Catholic grammar school in a nunnery, she paid for her food with kitchen labor alongside the nuns and learned large-scale cooking. Review | Chef Lidia Bastianich’s immigrant success story 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z An unmarried grammar school teacher, Cloud wrote me rarely but always to a purpose. 'A political volcano just erupted': is the US on the brink of the next Watergate? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The government said it was working to widen access to grammar schools. Grammar school success 'down to privilege' 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Children from more deprived backgrounds on average do better at grammar schools than in the comprehensive system, but these schools select a disproportionate number of children from wealthy families. Reality Check: Do grammar schools help poor children? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The majority of families who hire tutors in Britain are middle-class parents, with students often receiving additional lessons in the evening or at the weekend to help with schoolwork or grammar school entrance exams. 'Some families are too shady to work with': meet the tutors of the ultra-rich 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z “Meritocracy” and expertise – represented by grammar school education, the professions and PhDs – began dictating the new recruitment policy. Is the British establishment finally finished? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z “Modeled on the English grammar school,” RoxburyLatin.org states, “the School was dedicated to giving instructions in the classics and producing Christian citizens.” Secularism isn’t working 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z However, the findings mean that grammar schools in England endanger social cohesion for no clear improvement in overall results. Grammar school success 'down to privilege' 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z And those poorer children who live in selective areas - but don't get into grammar school - do worse than those in areas which mainly operate the comprehensive school system. Reality Check: Do grammar schools help poor children? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z A grammar school boy, who went on to win a first at Oxford. Political heroes: Cable on Roy Jenkins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Mr Hinds, a former Department for Work and Pensions minister, went to a Catholic grammar school in Altrincham and then studied at the University of Oxford. Sam Gyimah is new universities minister 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The Conservatives' flagship policy of bringing back grammar schools was abandoned in the wake of the election. Greening replaced as education secretary 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Greening was no enthusiast for the prime minister’s push to expand the number of grammar schools and it is widely reported that the Conservatives are anxious to refresh their education policies. Theresa May to reshuffle cabinet on Monday, No 10 confirms 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Research from the University of Durham published in March suggested that grammar schools perform no better than non-selective state schools once their pupils' higher ability and wealth is taken into account. Reality Check: Do grammar schools help poor children? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Some Tory MPs said grammar schools offer "invaluable opportunities". Archbishop criticises grammar schools 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z That a candidate could lose an election to Trump, and continue in public life, is "beyond the beyond" as the nuns in my grammar school would say. Celebrating a 25-Year-Old Clinton Win, but Still Stung by a Trump Defeat 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z But Justine Greening was never a standard bearer for ideological reforms, whether the free school programme or new grammar schools. Greening replaced as education secretary 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Born in 1927 in Pilsen in the Czech Republic, Ruzickova was expelled from grammar school when the second world war started because she was a Jew. Harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova, who survived three Nazi camps, dies at 90 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z At the moment, grammar school intakes are heavily skewed towards children from better-off backgrounds. Reality Check: Do grammar schools help poor children? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z England's first "new" grammar school in five decades opens to pupils later. First 'new' grammar school in 50 years opens in Kent - BBC News 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Schools will not be able to leave local authority control completely and there will be no grammar schools. Programme for government: Education remains number one priority - BBC News 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Mrs May is still prepared to walk away from Brexit talks without a deal, he added, but her hopes of reversing the ban on new grammar schools are over. Election 2017: Tories 'should have focused on change' - BBC News 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z A grammar school boy from York, he initially joined the Liberal Party but, after university, defected to Labour. The Vince Cable story: Profile of new Lib Dem leader - BBC News 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z In 2016, BBC research looking at the admissions policies of all 163 existing grammar schools in England revealed that fewer than half were doing anything at all to prioritise children on free school meals. Reality Check: Do grammar schools help poor children? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z During the debate over plans to reintroduce grammar schools, the government was challenged over whether it was refusing to accept the evidence of experts. Greening announces 'evidence champion' for schools - BBC News 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The latest parliamentary answers come after Education Secretary Justine Greening confirmed, in an earlier written statement, the government was abandoning its plans for a new wave of grammar schools. Ministers accused of 'retreat on education manifesto' - BBC News 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z But in the wake of the election result, many of the Conservatives' education plans are no longer going ahead - including the expansion of grammar schools. Heads worried over tuition fee pledge for teachers - BBC News 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The Labour leader highlighted manifesto measures not included, including grammar school expansion and cuts to pensioners' winter fuel payments. Queen's Speech: Jeremy Corbyn attacks 'threadbare' programme - BBC News 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Pupils tend to travel further to attend grammar schools than they do to attend comprehensives. Reality Check: Do grammar schools help poor children? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The creation of a new wave of grammar schools in England is not included in the government's plans for legislation. Plan for more grammar schools abandoned - BBC News 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Raised by a single mum, she did well at grammar school, and then studied law at Cambridge University. The 'diva of divorce' for the world's super rich - BBC News 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z But it has also made it clear that schools will not be able to opt out of local authority control and that there will be no selective schools or grammar schools. Scottish school governance shake-up to be announced - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z It features prominently in the Conservative manifesto, which claimed grammar schools almost completely eliminated the "attainment gap between rich and poor pupils". What won't be in the Queen's Speech? - BBC News 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z We've been told by Brexit Secretary David Davis that some of the plans in the Conservative manifesto will be "pruned" - with speculation about social care changes and grammar school expansion. Theresa May staying in No 10: What you need to know - BBC News 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Theresa May's enthusiasm for new grammar schools in England isn't shared by all Conservatives but would she risk a rebellion over the policy? Election 2017: Why Queen's Speech is a big test for May - BBC News 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z "I don't think having more grammar schools will improve education for all," Sharon said. General election 2017: 'Why I switched from Tories to Labour' - BBC News 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z The research also shows that in grammar schools 9% of pupils are either on free school meals or the pupil premium and 32% of pupils in these groups in non-selective schools. Tories accused of 'sleight of hand' on manifesto grammar schools data - BBC News 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z A "proud Brummie", Street attended a Birmingham grammar school and has chaired the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership since 2011. Former John Lewis boss poaches Labour voters for British PM May 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The manifesto states that the party would not "waste money on inefficient free schools", while dismissing grammar schools as a "Conservative vanity project". Labour manifesto pledges £25bn package for education - BBC News 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z It results in us defending bizarrely segregated school education systems – and suggesting a further increase in this segregation by introducing new grammar schools. Humans are most atrocious when we live under the weight of great inequalities | Danny Dorling 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Kent is one of the few parts of the country where a grammar school system still operates. General election 2017: 'Why I switched from Tories to Labour' - BBC News 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z She adds: "The DfE figures in fact show clearly that pupils from families on below average incomes are far less strongly represented in grammar schools than non-selective schools." Tories accused of 'sleight of hand' on manifesto grammar schools data - BBC News 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Pressed over some of his successor's policies - such as a plan to create more grammar schools, something he opposed, Mr Cameron said he was happy to support the Conservative manifesto and the party's candidates. General election 2017: David Cameron on need to stop 'extreme Brexit' - BBC News 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z He photographed a memo last September, held by a civil servant, that revealed the government’s plan for grammar schools; a year before, he photographed a document showing proposals to privatise Channel 4. Was Steve Bannon’s whiteboard gaffe really what it seemed? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Heads are being urged to "vigorously" oppose the expansion of grammar schools in England. Heads urged 'to vigorously oppose grammars' - BBC News 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z To this is added her undoubted weakness in lacking a personal mandate for personal policies, such as on grammar schools, which are already costing her party support. May has called a snap general election. Our writers respond | Zoe Williams and others 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Prof Sullivan believes that there was no evidence that grammar schools would tackle educational inequality and increase social mobility. Tories accused of 'sleight of hand' on manifesto grammar schools data - BBC News 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z This it argues is an expansion of grammar school places by the back door. Legal threat over 'back door' grammar school streams - BBC News 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Ms Greening will say "many young people from an ordinary working class background already attend our existing grammar schools". Grammar schools must serve 'ordinary families' - BBC News 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The education secretary is committed to increase selection and to create new grammar schools. Greening wants schools to work for 'ordinary families' - BBC News 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z This period in a child's education is more important than grammar school, high school, or college. Do Preschool Teachers Really Need to Be College Graduates? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The party argues that increasing the number of grammar schools will improve social mobility as more poor bright children will be taught by them. Tories accused of 'sleight of hand' on manifesto grammar schools data - BBC News 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z This was laid down by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, which blocked the opening of any new grammar schools. Legal threat over 'back door' grammar school streams - BBC News 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Extra places are needed to keep pace with a rising school-age population - and to create places in a new wave of grammar schools. Extra school places and building repairs in £2.4bn boost - BBC News 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z He was 29 years old when he called his last game at the Polo Grounds, which was about 20 blocks from his grammar school, and he captured the melancholy of the moment. N.W.A., Vin Scully to be preserved by Library of Congress 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The Labour leader's son Ben went to a North London grammar school although Mr Corbyn was reported to be against it. PMQs: May gets personal with Corbyn over grammar schools - BBC News 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z A powerful new cross-party campaign is threatening to derail Theresa May's plans to expand the number of grammar schools in England. Opposition MPs join forces to oppose grammar schools - BBC News 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Or it may be a judicial review of any forthcoming guidance from the secretary of state to academy trusts allowing them to open separate grammar schools or streams within their group of schools. Legal threat over 'back door' grammar school streams - BBC News 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr Gove, debating education policy alongside the former US education secretary Arne Duncan refused to be drawn on whether he agreed with the push for more grammar schools in England. Migrants have raised school standards in London, says Gove - BBC News 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z They go to a grammar school and they feel held back because the foreigners coming into the school don’t speak English well; it makes the classes go slower. On the brink of Brexit, voters reflect: ‘I feel more strongly now. Let's get out’ 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z He also warned against focusing cash on grammar schools and free schools, which he described as "a complete diversion from the real job of giving teachers the tools to teach our kids". Lib Dems: Blame Brexit for Budget gloom - BBC News 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Extra money for new schools in England, including free and grammar schools, are set to be announced by the chancellor in his Budget on Wednesday. Angela Rayner: Grammar schools are 'vanity project' - BBC News 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z "We are aware that the government is trying other routes other than primary legislation to increase the number grammar schools," said Mr Courtney. Legal threat over 'back door' grammar school streams - BBC News 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z They are used to decide which pupils are admitted to the vast majority of grammar schools. Academic selection: Proposal for single transfer test - BBC News 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z He added that he believed that every child, regardless of background, should have the opportunity to get into a grammar school, if it is their wish to do so. Academic selection: Policy group criticises impact - BBC News 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The cross-party committee also highlighted the vagueness of the plans so far - with no clear outline of how many grammar schools would be created or how local demand for such grammars would be measured. Grammars 'unnecessary distraction', say MPs - BBC News 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Head teachers have been warning about having to cut school hours, governors have threatened to refuse to sign off budgets and grammar school leaders have said they might have to start charging parents. Half of academies fall short on funding - BBC News 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Wildly popular with some, grammar schools are fiercely opposed by others. Why a top university runs a London state school on Soviet lines 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z "What we're looking at here is funding which is fundamentally going to change the nature of grammar schools," he said. Grammar schools 'may ask parents for hundreds of pounds a year' - BBC News 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Last month's report by the Education Policy Institute said there were six areas in England where parents would like new grammar schools and where creating them would benefit the wider school population. Reconsider grammar plan, heads urge May - BBC News 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Head teachers wrote to MPs last week to express their "incredulity" that grammar schools were being offered extra funds to expand places, while they were facing job cuts because of deepening pressures on their budgets. Grammars 'unnecessary distraction', say MPs - BBC News 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z He was evacuated to a variety of places during the war and later went to grammar school in north London and then to Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a degree in history. Obituary: Rabbi Lionel Blue - BBC News 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Top scientists fear plans for more grammar schools in England will not boost disadvantaged pupils' grades. Grammars 'will not boost poorest pupils' science grades' - BBC News 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z But a spokeswoman for the DfE dismissed the findings, noting that its own consultation on removing the ban from grammar schools closes on Monday. New grammar schools would benefit just six areas, says study - BBC News 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The government's consultation on proposals to lift the ban on opening new grammar schools ends on Monday. Children of 'just managing families left out by grammars' - BBC News 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He said they showed the need to "make more good school places available" in grammar schools and announced £12m to support professional training for science teaching. Pisa tests: UK lags behind in global school rankings - BBC News 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Nearly 40 percent did not complete grammar school. Irving Fradkin, who sent millions to school with Dollars for Scholars, dies at 95 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z The proposal is part of a range of measures, including opening new grammar schools, aimed at boosting the number of places in high performing schools. Faith school push will not 'help results' - BBC News 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The EPI's chairman, David Laws, said his organisation's analysis showed that the provision of additional grammar school places in England would be unlikely to be an effective strategy to boost social mobility. New grammar schools would benefit just six areas, says study - BBC News 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z But the researchers found these children "were substantially less likely to attend grammar schools" than children from better off areas. Children of 'just managing families left out by grammars' - BBC News 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Eton was also unnecessary: there was a good grammar school not far from our town, a place that sent kids every year to Oxford and Cambridge. Lessons from My Mother 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr Philp also cited evidence he said suggested children from "ordinary" backgrounds did better in grammar schools. Grammar school expansion plan' baffling', says MP - BBC News 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z It argued that faith schools were on average slightly more socially selective than high-performing schools, but at secondary level much less socially selective than grammar schools. Faith school push will not 'help results' - BBC News 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z There are only six areas in England where parents want new grammar schools and creating them would benefit the wider school population, a study says. New grammar schools would benefit just six areas, says study - BBC News 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z "A lack of access to grammar schools isn't merely restricted to those at the very bottom of the scale," say the researchers. Children of 'just managing families left out by grammars' - BBC News 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He said this would include "scrapping the ban on new grammar school places and harnessing the resources and expertise of universities, independent and faith schools". Poorer pupils lag by almost two years - BBC News 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Allocating cash for the expansion of grammar schools in England when other parts of the education sector face funding concerns is "baffling", shadow education secretary Angela Rayner says. Grammar school expansion plan' baffling', says MP - BBC News 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z There has been disquiet over issues such as opening new grammar schools and welfare changes. Theresa May's numbers game - BBC News 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z When I was in grammar school, astronauts and spies were big in popular culture. Because I Was a Girl, I Was Told ... 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Lack of access to grammar schools is not confined to the poorest children, those from "just managing" families are also left out, research suggests. Children of 'just managing families left out by grammars' - BBC News 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The government's plans for new grammar schools in England are based on "flimsy evidence", a former Labour shadow education minister has said. Grammar expansion plans based on 'flimsy evidence' - BBC News 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z But Sir Michael argued that a return to a grammar school system would be a "monumental mistake". Schools engines of social cohesion, says Ofsted boss - BBC News 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z He was a bright boy, and went to grammar school. Johnny Marr: ‘The conversation about re-forming came out of the blue' 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The Prime Minister announced plans last month to reverse Labour's 1998 ban on new grammar schools. Government formally drops academies legislation - BBC News 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the evidence from the report was clear and "grammar schools reinforce advantage and offer nothing to most kids". Children of 'just managing families left out by grammars' - BBC News 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Announced in September, the proposals to allow new grammar schools have prompted strong criticism from politicians and the teaching profession. Grammar expansion plans based on 'flimsy evidence' - BBC News 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z He suggested that part of the reason that grammar schools were "back in vogue" was because of a failure to fully reform comprehensive schools. Schools engines of social cohesion, says Ofsted boss - BBC News 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Mrs May's transition from quiet Remainer to committed Leaver has set her apart from her predecessor, a theme that she has continued with returns to more traditional Conservative positions on immigration and grammar schools. Theresa May's first 100 days: How she and past leaders shaped up - BBC News 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z "Simply allowing more disadvantaged pupils to attend grammar schools will not create the systematic improvement needed for a world-class education system," he said. Most grammar schools 'not prioritising poor pupils' - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z "There is a strong indication that families on below average earnings are not being helped by the current grammar school system," said the Sutton Trust. Children of 'just managing families left out by grammars' - BBC News 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z MPs heard that grammar schools were under-represented at Oxford and Cambridge universities, given their selective intake, and grammars did not increase the number of high achieving students. Grammar expansion plans based on 'flimsy evidence' - BBC News 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Northern Ireland's 66 grammar schools tend not to prioritise pupils on free school meals, but they are more socially inclusive anyway, with a higher proportion of pupils from poorer backgrounds. Grammar schools and poverty: Check your area - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Speaking earlier, the prime minister said she wanted to open up places in grammar schools which are "overwhelmingly good or outstanding". Greening announces social mobility 'opportunity areas' - BBC News 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The government is consulting on proposals for new grammar schools, including asking what proportion of children from lower income families they should admit. Most grammar schools 'not prioritising poor pupils' - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The Sutton Trust report also finds that ethnic background plays a significant role in grammar school entry - with disadvantaged Indian pupils four times more likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school. Children of 'just managing families left out by grammars' - BBC News 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z "I do think that we have to focus on what matters and therefore I repeat this issue about grammar schools is something of a distraction," Mr Carmichael said. Grammar expansion plans based on 'flimsy evidence' - BBC News 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Once widespread, grammar schools are now confined to just 36 of England's 152 local authorities, but Prime Minister Theresa May plans to change and expand the system. Grammar schools and poverty: Check your area - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The push for social mobility is also part of the government's controversial proposals to create new grammar schools. Greening announces social mobility 'opportunity areas' - BBC News 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Many grammar schools are sited in more affluent areas, but the BBC analysis suggests no clear correlation between their admission policies and the level of deprivation within a few miles of their location. Most grammar schools 'not prioritising poor pupils' - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z A Department for Education spokesman said previous Sutton Trust research had "highlighted the positive impact grammar schools can have on pupils from less well-off backgrounds". Children of 'just managing families left out by grammars' - BBC News 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Neil Carmichael, the Conservative chairman of the Commons Education Committee, described the grammar school plans as a "distraction". Grammar expansion plans based on 'flimsy evidence' - BBC News 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z In grammar schools, our analysis shows that the Ever 6 average is much lower, at 6.9% of pupils. Grammar schools and poverty: Check your area - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z "If you look at the attainment within grammar schools, poorer children do better in grammar schools than they do in other schools," said Mrs May. Greening announces social mobility 'opportunity areas' - BBC News 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Recent research from the Education Policy Institute showed grammar school pupils travelled, on average, twice as far to get to school as those attending non-selective schools. Most grammar schools 'not prioritising poor pupils' - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The oldest of four siblings, Evans has been overachieving since grammar school. Like father, like daughter: Leaving a business that carries on after an owner is gone 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Concerns have been expressed about pupils from wealthier families receiving private tutoring in order to pass exams to get into a grammar school. Grammar expansion plans based on 'flimsy evidence' - BBC News 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Instead the Tories are looking backwards towards grammar schools, offer no change on the NHS and are still committed to deep cuts. May says she will trigger article 50, starting EU withdrawal, before end of March - Politics live 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Last month Education Secretary Justine Greening said she wanted to offer parents choice by lifting the ban on new grammar schools but that children would not be split into "winners and losers". Grammar schools will not be in every town, says Theresa May - BBC News 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The analysis revealed that 21 grammar schools set aside places in quotas for pupils from lower income families. Most grammar schools 'not prioritising poor pupils' - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z But Jon Coles, who attended a grammar school as a child, says he is concerned about what will happen to children who do not get a place in a selective school. Academy boss on his doubts about creating new grammar schools - BBC News 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z But Mr Gibb told MPs there was evidence that the grades of children in selective areas who did not get into grammar schools fell by only a fraction of a grade. Grammar expansion plans based on 'flimsy evidence' - BBC News 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z He says he is concerned about what will happen to children who do not get a place in grammar schools. Academy boss says grammar plans may leave children behind - BBC News 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Answering a question in the Commons, she said grammar schools would only be a part of a "very broad-based education system". Grammar schools will not be in every town, says Theresa May - BBC News 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Academy chains are being encouraged to set up selective schools under government plans that include expanding grammar schools in England. Academies encouraged to open selective schools - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The report identifies a "tipping point" at which the positive effects of attending a grammar school start to reduce and the negative effects of not attending one increase. Grammar schools expansion 'could dumb them down' - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z At my grammar school, you displayed your allegiances via the album you carried under your arm: Deep Purple in Rock, Genesis’s Nursery Cryme and so on. The greatest record sleeves – as chosen by the designers 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z "I think it asks a lot of questions - why aren't people as angry that we're not learning the lessons of the London challenge as they are about grammar schools." Academy boss says grammar plans may leave children behind - BBC News 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The plan to launch new grammar schools - traditionally entered by pupils aged 11 after passing an 11+ exam - emerged in early September, sparking fierce debate as to its rights and wrongs. Grammar schools will not be in every town, says Theresa May - BBC News 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The call for universities to help set up schools was part of the proposals to expand grammar schools. Oxford head rejects sponsoring schools - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Overall, the report debunks government claims that expanding grammar schools will boost social mobility. Grammar schools expansion 'could dumb them down' - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z He will also attack the government's plans to expand grammar schools in England. Tim Farron: Lib Dems would raise taxes to fund NHS - BBC News 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps in a bid to build up political capital among her Conservative base, one of Mrs. May’s first acts was to announce plans to expand grammar schools. Theresa May, Britain prime minister, faces tough early tests 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z She knows the grammar school row will not be easy. Theresa May, the prime minister prepared to risk it all 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z A non-selective Kent school is believed to be the first to outline plans to become a grammar school after Theresa May outlined education changes. Meopham School outlines plans to be a grammar - BBC News 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The Department for Education is understood to be researching the impact of more grammar school places, as well as running a consultation on the plans announced earlier this month. Grammar schools expansion 'could dumb them down' - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Mr Osborne talks to the Today programme about the Northern Powerhouse, grammar schools and his relationship with Mrs May. George Osborne's first interview after sacking - BBC News 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Critics argue that grammar schools reinforce class boundaries, but Conservatives argue that the schools are a means of social mobility for the best and brightest students regardless of their parents’ wealth. Theresa May, Britain prime minister, faces tough early tests 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z He said relationships had been rebuilt over the summer and almost all MPs had "swung behind Jeremy" when he attacked Mrs May over grammar schools. Corbyn: I'd abandon failed economic model - BBC News 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Other analyses suggest that, overall, a smaller share of poor children get high grades in areas with lots of grammar schools than elsewhere. A new syllabus 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Research author and associate director at EPI, Jo Hutchinson, said the decline in the benefits of grammar school education would be seen most in areas with more selection. Grammar schools expansion 'could dumb them down' - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The plan to allow trusts to remove all parent governors is part of the White Paper on academies, published before the latest plans for another change of direction in the Green Paper on grammar schools. Academy rejects call for parent governors - BBC News 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z He said bright pupils in England were not getting enough opportunities, but grammar school tests were not reliable. Grammar schools benefit rich, says OECD - BBC News 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It seems unlikely he'd back a new generation of grammar schools but his foundation has some links to free schools and he has never been one to oppose faith schools. Who would you put in a cabinet of ex-politicians? - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Jeremy Corbyn claimed the prime minister was not able to answer his question as to whether any educational experts support her grammar schools plan. PMQs Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn on grammar schools. - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The EPI report models what would happen to grammar schools by expanding them in the way the government is considering. Grammar schools expansion 'could dumb them down' - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z "He went to a grammar school, I went to a grammar school. It is what got us to where we are today. My side may be slightly happier than his." Prime Minister's Questions: Clash over grammar schools - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z "I think the importance of grammar schools is dramatically overplayed," he said. Grammar schools benefit rich, says OECD - BBC News 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The majority of teachers and school leaders oppose Prime Minister Theresa May's plans for a new wave of grammar schools in England, a survey suggests. Teachers oppose grammar expansion, survey finds - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Theresa May said he believed in "levelling down" but she was in favour of "levelling up", before reminding MPs that both she and the Labour leader both went to grammar schools. PMQs Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn on grammar schools. - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z This was when 70% of the top quarter of high achieving pupils at the end of primary school acquired a grammar school place. Grammar schools expansion 'could dumb them down' - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The Labour leader said the 11-plus test used to admit children to grammar schools was a "life-changing division" and cited statistics suggested children from low-income households performed more poorly in grammar school areas. Prime Minister's Questions: Clash over grammar schools - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z He added: "We will never go down the divisive academy model. And there will be no return to selection or grammar schools." John Swinney: Schools review to 'empower' teachers - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Former Conservative Education Secretary Nicky Morgan says grammar school proposals are a "strange first battle to pick". Ex-education secretary criticises grammar plans - BBC News 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The previous prime minister was critical of grammar schools, for example, and left Downing street urging his successor to maintain promises on international aid. David Cameron to stand down as MP for Witney 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z "In the areas where there are more places, the benefits are going to be more diluted for those children in the grammar schools, as they become more like mixed ability schools." Grammar schools expansion 'could dumb them down' - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z During exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions, Mrs May defended plans for more grammar schools and to allow existing state-funded schools to select pupils on the basis of academic ability. Prime Minister's Questions: Clash over grammar schools - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z To be clear, there will be no English-style academies, no grammar schools or selection on the basis of academic ability. John Swinney: Schools review to 'empower' teachers - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Plans to create new grammar schools in England will be put before the House of Commons later on Monday. Grammar school plan faces MPs challenge - BBC News 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Plans to re-introduce grammar schools in England will be presented in the House of Commons later. MPs set to question grammar school plans - BBC News 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z But when researchers took into account the high achieving nature of the very small minority of disadvantaged pupils who reach grammar schools, most of this difference disappeared. Grammar schools expansion 'could dumb them down' - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It is part of the prime minister's so-called social reform agenda which launched last week with her plans to revolutionise the education system and bring back grammar schools. PM announces £80m for youth projects in England - BBC News 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Mrs May said all schools in England are to be given the right to apply to select pupils by ability, under plans also allowing grammar schools to expand. Lib Dems' Baroness Nicholson rejoins Conservatives - BBC News 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Andrew Shilling, of the Sevenoaks Grammar School Campaign, called the proposed removal of the ban on new grammar schools excellent news for parents in the town. Will more schools select by ability? - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Divisions over grammar schools and academic selection are as pronounced and passionate in Northern Ireland as in England. Grammar schools: Theresa May ignites debate that has raged in Northern Ireland 'for years' - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z It also found that proposals to increase the number of grammar school places in England were unlikely to improve attainment overall. Grammar schools expansion 'could dumb them down' - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Ofsted's chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said the idea that poor children would benefit from a return of grammar schools was "tosh" and "nonsense". School selection plans could undo years of reform - Morgan - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Those who did best went to grammar schools; the rest attended "secondary moderns" that offered little chance of getting to university. UK education reforms spark debate on class and the classroom 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z "One is effectively a grammar school where bright children get a highly focused academic education. There is no mixed ability teaching." Will more schools select by ability? - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z "Every child, regardless of background, postcode, social group, religion or ethnicity has equal opportunity to get into a grammar school," he added. Grammar schools: Theresa May ignites debate that has raged in Northern Ireland 'for years' - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Those who did best went to grammar schools; the rest attended “secondary moderns” that offered little chance of getting to university. UK education reforms spark debate on class and the classroom 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The plans will also include the ability for bright children to join grammar schools, not just at 11, but at 14 and 16 as well. School selection plans could undo years of reform - Morgan - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z |
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