{"id":144530,"date":"2018-06-21T19:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ofsted-chief-says-poor-white-communities-lack-aspiration-and-drive\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T19:04:51","slug":"ofsted-chief-says-poor-white-communities-lack-aspiration-and-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ofsted-chief-says-poor-white-communities-lack-aspiration-and-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofsted chief says poor white communities lack ‘aspiration and drive’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Ms Spielman was speaking to an education festival at Wellington school in Berkshire <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

White working-class communities can lack the "aspiration and drive" of many migrant groups, England's chief schools inspector has told a conference. <\/p>\n

Amanda Spielman said a long-overdue debate was under way about why white working-class pupils fall behind. <\/p>\n

"We are having to grapple with the unhappy fact that many... working-class communities have felt the full brunt of economic dislocation," she said. <\/p>\n

Her comments follow criticism that Ofsted is unfair on poor white schools.<\/p>\n

Last week heads complained that Ofsted inspections do not take enough account for the circumstances of a school. <\/p>\n

Separately, the secondary heads union ASCL has hit out at school performance tables for unfairly stigmatising schools in white working-class areas. <\/p>\n

In a speech to the Festival of Education at Wellington College in Berkshire, Ms Spielman said: "We are having to grapple with the unhappy fact that many local working class communities have felt the full brunt of economic dislocation in recent years, and, perhaps as a result, can lack the aspiration and drive seen in many migrant communities".<\/p>\n

She said Department for Education analysis showed schools in some areas of England faced real challenges, with both their pupil intake and their capacity to teach effectively.<\/p>\n

"Schools in these areas struggle with teacher recruitment; there are fewer local academy sponsors; and there is less access to leadership support through national leaders of education and through teaching schools," she said. <\/p>\n

"We can't pretend that Ofsted judgements are not lower in certain areas, many of them with a high proportion of white working-class children."<\/p>\n