{"id":25638,"date":"2026-05-01T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/only-3-of-high-achieving-disadvantaged-children-who-were-top-25-at-ks2-went-on-to-get-a\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:52:30","slug":"only-3-of-high-achieving-disadvantaged-children-who-were-top-25-at-ks2-went-on-to-get-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/only-3-of-high-achieving-disadvantaged-children-who-were-top-25-at-ks2-went-on-to-get-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 3% of high-achieving disadvantaged children who were top 25% at KS2 went on to get a \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 3% of high-achieving disadvantaged children who were top 25% at KS2 went on to get a 2:1 in a maths degree.<\/p>\n<p>That&#039;s 715 out of 31,310.<\/p>\n<p>We&#039;re losing our brightest mathematicians from poorer backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FFTEduDatalab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FFTEduDatalab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mathseducation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#mathseducation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/socialmobility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#socialmobility<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/buff.ly\/6vTVLep\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">buff.ly\/6vTVLep<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mark_Sheldon\/status\/2050181567494967588\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View on X &#x2197;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 3% of high-achieving disadvantaged children who were top 25% at KS2 went on to get a 2:1 in a maths degree. That&#039;s 715 out of 31,310. We&#039;re losing our brightest mathematicians from poorer backgrounds. via @FFTEduDatalab #mathseducation #socialmobility buff.ly\/6vTVLep 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-25638","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\/25638","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=25638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mark-sheldon.com\/twitter-stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}