Professor Steve Strand
Professor of Education, Department of Education
About
Professor Steve Strand is interested in ethnicity, social class and gender in relation to a wide range of educational outcomes (such as educational achievement, pupil progress, attendance, exclusion from school, the identification of Special Educational Needs etc.) and at all stages of statutory schooling age 4-16. He is also interested in school effectiveness, on the impact of English language fluency, pupil mobility, parental involvement, and on education policy in relation to school effectiveness.
Expertise
- Race / ethnicity and educational achievement
- Social class and achievement
- White working-class achievement
- Intersectionality
- Equity in education
- English as an Additional Language (EAL)
- Special educational need (SEN)
- School effectiveness / performance / league tables
Selected publications
- Ethnic Disproportionality in the Identification of High-Incidence Special Educational Needs: A National Longitudinal Study Ages 5 to 11 (2021)
- Proficiency in English is a better predictor of educational achievement than English as an Additional Language (EAL) (2021)
- Ethnic, socio-economic and sex inequalities in educational achievement at age 16 (2021)
- EAL and proficiency in English: what should we be assessing and how? (2021)
- Ethnicity and the identification of SEN (2019)
- Do some schools narrow the gap? Differential school effectiveness revisited (2016)
- Ethnicity, deprivation and educational achievement at age 16 in England: trends over time (2015)
- Ethnicity, gender, social class and achievement gaps at age 16: intersectionality and ‘getting it’ for the white working class (2014)
Media experience
Professor Strand has considerable media experience, including national print and broadcast media.
Recent media work
- How race, sex and class combine to affect school results (The Conversation, 2021)
- Professor Strand interviewed by Eddie Mair on LBC (2020)
- Professor Strand interviewed by Andrew Pierce on LBC Radio (2019, scroll down to ‘Related News’)
- Gauging EAL pupils’ English ability ‘vital’ (Times Education Supplement, 2018)
- Give white working-class children extra English help to catch up, report says (The Guardian, 2015)
- Even at best schools, kids on free school meals are performing worse than their peers (The Conversation, 2014)
- School's quality does not affect gaps in attainment, research shows (The Guardian, 2014)
- Even excellent schools 'don't help poor kids to catch rich' (Independent, 2014)
- Schools 'not to blame' for poor grades in deprived areas (The Telegraph, 2014)
Languages
English