England’s white working-class inquiry: the disadvantage is familiar, the structure that sorts it is not…

An inquiry into white working-class underachievement in England published its report this week. Northern Ireland will be tempted to read it as a study of its own working-class Protestant boys. The disadvantage transfers, the category does not, and the structure that distributes it here is one that the English inquiry was not designed to confront. The Independent Inquiry into White Working Class Educational Outcomes, commissioned by the Star Academies, supported by the Department for Education...