Literacy news
"Clever" pupils from disadvantaged households two years behind wealthier peers in reading
4 Jul 2012
By the age of 15 intelligent students from poor backgrounds lag two years behind wealthy ones of the same age according to a new study by the Institute of Education.
The study analyses the reading results of able teenagers in 23 countries and found that the gap between rich and poor students in England was two and a half years, and two and three quarter years in Scotland. This is double the gap between rich and poor found in most of the other countries studied. it is more than twice as wide as the gap found in Iceland, Finland and Germany, where the reading gap between rich and poor is about a year.
Read the full story at BBC News.
