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SOCIAL CLASS DIVISIONS WITHIN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM. There has been a sustained and substantial achievement gap based on social class within the education system. Pupils from middle- class backgrounds have consistently outperformed those form working -class families. This has varied little despite the introduction of the tri-partite system in 1944 and the attempt to remove such differences through comprehensivisation in the 1960s and 1970s. This is a serious social issue in a liberal, democratic society which emphasises a commitment to equality of opportunity therefore there exists a widespread amount of research by sociologists into the causes and sources of working-class underachievement. The 1870 Education Act provided school accommodation 'for all the children for whose elementary education efficient and sizable provision is not otherwise made', while the 1902 Act introduced a secular framework for the education system by placing it under the control of local education authorities, with some exceptions which allowed...

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