Getting ahead of ourselves | Inside Story

Getting ahead of ourselves | Inside Story:
"the most interesting of the report’s findings. According to the authors, the evidence suggests that “increasing the social mix within schools may increase performance of disadvantaged students with neutral or in some cases with positive effects on overall performance. Thus, policies aimed at encouraging such mix in neighbourhoods may, therefore, play a role in mitigating inequalities.” This means that policies to encourage students from a range of backgrounds to attend the same schools (the opposite of much government education policy in Australia over the past decade) will not only improve the performance of the least able students without lowering average performance, but could increase the overall performance of a classroom or a school."