In 1996 she published research she had conducted with Clyde Chitty from which they concluded that academically able pupils in comprehensives did just as well as their equivalents in grammar schools.

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This includes Professor Richard Pring, head of education at Oxford University, Dr Anne West, director of the Centre for Education Research at the London School of Economics and Professor Clyde Chitty, head of education at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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