Several hundred children depart every morning for selective schools in neighbouring Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
The most selective schools rank applicants according to their test scores, admitting only the best performers.
He said that selective schools were working with academics to develop and adopt entrance tests that were resistant to coaching.
Poor students of whatever race stand a much lower chance of getting into selective schools, as I wrote in May.
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"We didn't think it was right to exclude from that greater freedom the small number of selective schools that there are in the system, " he added.
The difference went away when the executives were said to have graduated from less selective schools, and when the evaluators were told that the more selective schools exercised race-blind admissions.
These include such things as the practice in some non-selective schools of not considering an application if the parents had also put a grammar school as one of their choices.
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Preschool, for most just a few hours a day in the mornings, can cost more than studying for an engineering degree at Michigan, and much more at some very selective schools.
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch feared selective schools would "cherry pick" the best-performing pupils from nearby comprehensives if they are allow to expand in size or create "satellite schools" in neighbouring areas.
The most selective schools in the US could easily double their enrollment while maintaining exceptionally high standards, but the costs of greatly expanding campuses and faculty would almost certainly exceed incremental revenues.
That is, over the past generation the most selective schools in the country got into the habit of listing a high sticker price and then discounting that price as needed in order to fill a class.
Even if athletic prowess doesn't lead to a scholarship, it may make an athlete more attractive to a selective schools, which can then entice the student to attend and play by offering other types of financial aid.
The report, The Barriers to Choice in Public Services, looked at "whether inward-looking admissions criteria, for example by faith and super-selective schools, ought to be balanced by a broad duty to promote a social balance inside the school".
The Tories deplore the limits Labour has placed on choice in education new controls on self-governing schools, the abolition of assisted places in private schools, and the threat to the remaining selective grammar schools.
The first contentious issue is what to do about schools: in particular, which ones to close and whether to retain selective grammar schools.
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Only in this way could the selective grammar schools enrol a balance of boys and girls.
These selective admission schools simply have to avoid screwing up their talented students.
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Some highly selective state schools should do more to help poorer children pass their entrance exams, suggests a government-funded study.
Academies are non-fee paying, non-selective state schools, which operate outside the control of local education authorities and have private sponsors.
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Their portfolios gain the kids entry to selective high schools.
Author David Boyle, of the New Economics Foundation, told BBC News that he was not suggesting that all children should be coached to pass entrance exams into "super-selective" schools, but that the need for coaching to pass some of the tests was "a clear barrier" to some families.
All parties agree Cooper is a unique place, as desirable and selective as many Ivy League schools.
He also wants schools to be more selective when awarding pay rises to teachers.
Grammar school heads said their schools were less socially selective than leading comprehensives.
Sweden, admired by Mr Gove for its independent, non-selective, state-funded Free Schools, has had a sticky period in international rankings.
Schools become more academically selective with athletic success.
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Those schools are also the most selective colleges when it comes to colleges admissions.
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For schools, the trend means they can be more selective and can promote low acceptance rates as a sign of desirability.
In America, private schools offer knowledge of the ins and outs of selective universities' admission methods, and carefully cultivated relationships with their admissions tutors.
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