More needed to be done to ensure that no child was held back by their
circumstances, Ms Morgan told the annual conference of the Association
of School and College Leaders (ASCL) in London.
Low educational
performance in some coastal areas and small towns in England was “a
scandal”, she added, citing the bigotry phrase first coined by the
former US President George W Bush.
Almost three quarters of
teenagers in Trafford, in Greater Manchester, achieved five good GCSE
passes including English and maths, but “just a 30-minute drive away” in
Knowsley “the number is less than half of that at 35 per cent”, she
said...