Miseducation

Education is supposed to level the playing field, and yet for many working-class children inequalities in the classroom in fact deepen the divide.

Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are almost four times more likely to be excluded from school than their wealthier peers and many are struggling in an educational environment increasingly concerned with discipline. In this substantially revised and updated edition of her bestselling book, Diane Reay - herself working class turned Cambridge professor - investigates why we educate social classes so differently.