Removing barriers to opportunity and achievement | NACE
Removing barriers to opportunity and achievement
Despite repeated calls
for excellence and equity in our national education system, the data shows widening gaps in outcomes and opportunities for learners who encounter disadvantage: potential is too often unfulfilled.
Building on NACE’s ongoing research into how schools can provide cognitively challenging learning opportunities for all, this new publication focuses in on what this means for young people who face a range of barriers to achievement. Calling for a move away from fixed labels, preconceptions
and “deficit thinking”, it shows what is possible when schools turn their attention to identifying and removing systemic barriers – changing those national statistics, one life at a time.
Led by NACE Research & Development
Director Dr Ann McCarthy, this project has been conducted in association with researchers at York St John University. It draws together a review of the existing evidence and research relating to ability and disadvantage, alongside the hands-on
experience and expertise of schools across NACE’s diverse network.
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Despite repeated calls
for excellence and equity in our national education system, the data shows widening gaps in outcomes and opportunities for learners who encounter disadvantage: potential is too often unfulfilled. 