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- ISBN 9781032905150
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This new edition of the best-selling Reaching the Unseen Children provides a powerful and accessible resource for schools working to close the attainment gap between disadvantaged children, particularly white pupils from low-income backgrounds, and their peers.
It tackles head-on the issues currently confronting schools, with new content on early years and on attendance, reflecting deeply worrying data showing that almost two in five disadvantaged pupils were persistently absent in the last school year. Firmly located in the current educational policy context, it incorporates the latest science – on how we can develop oracy, for example, on new approaches to teaching reading, and on why belonging, school connectedness, and agency are emerging as critical to the success of disadvantaged learners. The second edition includes many new case studies from outstanding schools which have successfully drawn on and developed ideas from the first edition, making them their own.
Bringing together the latest data, research, and stories from schools that have made the difference to close the gap, Reaching the Unseen Children remains an essential guide for anyone working in education today who is seeking equity for all their pupils.
Jean Gross is a best-selling author and expert on children’s issues. She has led many national initiatives aimed at improving the life chances of all those who struggle to succeed in our education system. Formerly the government’s Communication Champion for children and young people, she was awarded a CBE for services to education in 2011. Her previous books with Routledge include Improving Wellbeing and Behaviour in Special Educational Needs (2024), Beating Bureaucracy in Schools 4th ed (2023) and Time to Talk 2nd ed (2018).
