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Matthew J. Easterbrook is a social psychologist at the University of Sussex. His work aims primarily to increase our understanding of and ability to reduce inequalities in educational outcomes.

Monsters of meritocracy and beasts of bias: why social class matters in education, and how #MakeIt10 can help

Longer read: Monsters of meritocracy and beasts of bias: why social class matters in education, and how #MakeIt10 can help

20 September 2022 by

If you work hard enough, you can achieve anything.  This is the foundation of the concept of meritocracy, the belief…