George Leckie - Are league tables any use for choosing schools?

Each year, the government publishes league tables of GCSE results to help parents choose their children’s secondary school. But as George Leckie discusses with Romesh Vaitilingam , the past performance of schools is an imprecise guide to how they might perform in the future.

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• Full article - Are league tables any use for choosing schools? (CMPO Bulletin, 'Research in Public Policy' issue 8)

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