Edward Davies

Edward Davies is director of policy at the Centre for Social Justice.

The statistic that explains why white working class children do so badly

From our UK edition

Another year of GCSE results has prompted another bout of soul searching about the underachievement of white working class pupils. No lesser figure than Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has led the mourning this week, risking the ire of her colleagues with some bravery. It’s not hard to find declining marriage at the heart of almost

Forget race or class, marriage is the big social divide

From our UK edition

The latest spark to ignite the culture wars is a report from the parliamentary education committee on the underachievement of working-class white boys. But this isn’t about race. The boys don’t underachieve because they are white. Their skin colour is merely a marker by which we can see that a certain cohort is doing worse