更新：没有做好功课这贴有点误导了:lol ，贴里图表给出的统计资料是征对"低收入"家庭的“穷”学生的（poor pupil），穷学生（poor pupil）的定义是享受free school meal的学生。这样的话这个统计资料没有任何意义，一方面不代表英国所有学生和家庭的情况，另外一方面很多做生意的老板因为“低收入”孩子也享受free school meal的（你懂的）
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英国中学的国家教育目标是，每个孩子应该有包括英语数学的五门GCSE成绩在C以上，可现实情况是只有63%的孩子达到这个标准，按照种族分布统计，华人女孩成绩最好80%，男孩74%，和其它种族对比好像华人孩子不错，但说实话这个成绩没有什么可庆祝的，华人孩子（还有其它种族孩子）还有改善的必要和可能，政府要求的最低标准C华人孩子都没有全部达到，GCSE的C其实是很容易达到的。
Open schools for ten hours a day to tackle failure of white working-class pupils, say MPs
Children should be kept in school for up to ten hours a day to help reverse the ‘real and persistent’ underachievement of white working-class pupils, an influential group of MPs says today. Schools should extend their opening hours to ensure pupils can complete their homework, as part of a raft of measures to rescue a generation from joblessness and poverty.
In a major report, the Commons Education Select Committee said evidence suggested that longer school days could give pupils the equivalent of two months’ extra progress over an academic year. The report lays bare the extent to which white children on free school meals are under-performing at school.
They have fallen behind pupils from ethnic minorities by age five and stay at the bottom of the educational heap, passing fewer GCSEs than any other group and skipping more lessons. Many are being let down by schools where teaching is substandard, the committee warned.
The report was published as Education Minister Liz Truss called for more schools to be open for ten hours. If schools were failing to offer wraparound care between 8am and 6pm, parents should demand it, she said. In their report, MPs said an extended day ‘may particularly benefit white working-class children’ who would have ‘space and time’ to complete their homework. MPs had heard that some poorer pupils found it hard to complete homework because family members could be watching television in the same room.
The Mail revealed this week how a primary school in Norfolk has transformed its fortunes after introducing a mandatory nine-hour day. Great Yarmouth Primary Academy requires older pupils to stay until 6pm to take part in enrichment activities and complete homework under supervision. Mrs Truss yesterday urged more schools to follow suit.
She spoke as new figures showed that 53 per cent of primary schools in England – nearly 10,000 – are already offering some level of before and after-school care during term time. Addressing working parents in the Citymothers and Cityfathers networking group, Mrs Truss said schools must offer more support to working parents. She said: ‘Parents today are working harder than ever, spending more time with their children than ever, and worrying more than ever about how to help their child succeed.
‘We’re determined to make schools become institutions that work better with modern life – that prepare children for all the challenges of the modern world, and support and help family life.’
The proposal to extend school days was among a raft of measures suggested by MPs to turn around the under-achievement of white working-class pupils. Just 32.3 per cent of poor white British children achieved five good GCSE passes last year compared with 76.8 per cent from poor Chinese families.
Pupils from disadvantaged white families who leave school with poor results would previously have expected to get manual work, for example in factories, but now risked joblessness or casual work, the report said.
The report concluded that poor white families did significantly better at schools rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted than those rated ‘inadequate’. This ‘underlines the central importance of raising school and leadership quality’, it said.
A DfE spokesman said: ‘We have made it easier for all schools, not just academies and free schools, to extend the length of the school day. This can transform long-term under-performing schools.’
