Not when they arrive as small children. I've taught Early Years and years 1-2. They often arrive with no English. Once they start to learn English, the EAL learners rise to the top of the achievement tables- they're bilingual by 7, of course they're clever!

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that would be the same Times whose editors absolutely creamed themselves over the Jason Arday plagiarism allegations

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The second batch of our '100 Ideas for 100 Days of the Burnham Government' just dropped. After week one's democratic reform, devolution, immigration, foreign policy & defence, week 2 focuses on tax, inequality, ownership, technology & sustainability. www.compassonline.org.uk/100-ideas-fo...

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Our young people are our future. They are smarter, kinder, better than I was at their age. And they will help us meet this moment. My alumni address at the Kings College London graduation last week.

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I have read the Odyssey but it was many, many years ago. My memory of it has got completely entwined with the Simpson episode- If the sirens aren’t singing ‘the island, island of sirens’ to Copacabana it just won’t feel authentic!

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