{"id":25617,"date":"2026-04-08T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/high-achieving-disadvantaged-5-year-olds-are-21-points-less-likely-to-get-top-gcse-engli\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:11:44","slug":"high-achieving-disadvantaged-5-year-olds-are-21-points-less-likely-to-get-top-gcse-engli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/high-achieving-disadvantaged-5-year-olds-are-21-points-less-likely-to-get-top-gcse-engli\/","title":{"rendered":"High-achieving disadvantaged 5-year-olds are 21 % points less likely to get top GCSE Engli\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High-achieving disadvantaged 5-year-olds are 21 % points less likely to get top GCSE English grades than equally bright peers from better-off homes.<br \/>\n26 point gap in Maths.<br \/>\nEarly promise isn&#039;t enough-system loses them along the way.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FFTEduDatalab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FFTEduDatalab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ffteducationdatalab.org.uk\/2026\/04\/10-key-findings-about-the-outcomes-of-initially-high-achieving-children-from-disadvantaged-backgrounds\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ffteducationdatalab.org.uk\/2026\/04\/10-key\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mark_Sheldon\/status\/2041791086805365054\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View on X &#x2197;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-achieving disadvantaged 5-year-olds are 21 % points less likely to get top GCSE English grades than equally bright peers from better-off homes. 26 point gap in Maths. Early promise isn&#039;t enough-system loses them along the way. via @FFTEduDatalab ffteducationdatalab.org.uk\/2026\/04\/10-key\u2026 View on X &#x2197;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-tweets","post_format-post-format-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}