Becoming an inhabitant of a great English town, I often turned aside from the prosperous thoroughfares, (where the edifices, the shops, and the bustling crowd differed not so much from scenes with ...

Do children from poorer backgrounds perform less well at school? Dan and Alice talk about a new report which examines how poverty can affect children and their education. This week's question: In ...

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