Born to Fail?: Social Mobility: A Working Class View by Sonia Blandford

Born to Fail?: Social Mobility: A Working Class View by Sonia Blandford

Sonia Blandford, CEO of award-winning charity Achievement for All, writes brilliantly and honestly about the facing up to the realities of the white working class and how to address social mobility from the inside. No-one in the UK is better placed than Sonia to write about the struggles of white working class pupils in our schools. She grew up on the Allied Estate in Hounslow and was the first member of her family to pursue education beyond the age of 14 and was also the first to attend university. Sonia lost her mother when she took an accidental overdose, when she couldn't read the doctor's prescription. This tragic failing served as one of the inspirations for her to set up the award-winning Achievement for All organisation, who work with thousands of schools to help close the attainment gap. Born to Fail? tackles head-on issues such as why education often doesn't matter to the working class; how education has failed to deliver for them; the importance of self-belief, action and confidence; and how the Early Years is the crucial time to build success from the start.

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ISBN 13	9781911382409
ISBN 10	1911382403
Title	Born to Fail?: Social Mobility: A Working Class View
Author	Sonia Blandford
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder Education
Year published	2017-10-02
Number of pages	124
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