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  Mike Ion: A debate on grammar schools would provide clear political dividing lines. But which side will Cameron come down on?

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• Rush for places in best state schools as fee-payers feel pinch

  Oct 18 2008:

  Middle-class influx into state sector could mean local children lose out, say campaigners

• Grammars 'fail to take enough poor pupils'

  Oct 12 2008:

  Study also suggests state faith schools take fewer disadvantaged children than other state secondaries

• Report reveals rise in grammar pupils as class divisions widen

  Jun 27 2008:

  Figures examined the distribution of children from the poorest homes and found segregation had increased

• Low-performing schools to get £1m each to lift standards

  Jun 20 2008:

  The schools secretary, Ed Balls launches concerted attack on selective education and the 164 remaining grammar schools

• Academies the new grammar schools: Adonis

  Feb 8 2008:

  Academies should become this generation's grammar schools, offering disadvantaged bright children a "ladder" out of poverty, according to a schools minister

• Are we surprised?

  Feb 2 2008:

  Beatrix Campbell: New research shows that social exclusion is the raison d'etre of grammar schools and faith schools: they accelerate elitism and stall secularism

• Grammar schools fuelling social segregation, academics find

  Feb 1 2008: Ministers should consider scrapping grammar schools because they have fuelled social segregation between state schools, according to government research

• State pupils shun science

  Dec 2 2007: Private and grammar schools dominate the field

• Select gatherings

  Nov 28 2007:

  Grammar schools are not escape routes from poverty, they are schools for the middle classes and it's time they were abolished

• Present imperfect

  Nov 26 2007:

  Geoffrey Alderman: Grammar schools can provide good educational opportunities for all - we just need more of them

• Grammar schools are ghettos of the advantaged, says report

  Nov 21 2007:

  Only 5% of pupils come from poor backgrounds, according to new research from Bristol University

• Q&A: Grammar school policy

  Nov 15 2007:

  An explanation of the current debate surrounding grammar schools.

• Tory council plans to open grammar school

  Nov 15 2007:

  Buckinghamshire is planning to open the first grammar school in England for 50 years in a move that would put it on collision course with the government and pose problems for the Tories nationally

• Give parents a proper say on grammars

  Oct 30 2007:

  The whole voting system is rigged against change, says Roy Hattersley.

• Electing to end selection

  Oct 8 2007:

  The process by which parents can vote on academic selection by grammar schools simply doesn't work. Yes, we need a review: justice demands it.

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