The Big Question: Is the success of specialist schools an illusion resulting from extra funding? - Education News, Education - The Independent

The Big Question: Is the success of specialist schools an illusion resulting from extra funding? - Education News, Education - The Independent:

"findings, published by the Gatsby Foundation, they reveal that a pupil attending a music specialist school was more likely to get an A grade in physics at A-level than a pupil attending a specialist science school. In fact, the specialist science school only came fourth in the league table for science A-level results - behind modern foreign languages and maths and computing specialist schools as well. The figures were 36 per cent attaining A grades in music schools, 26.5 per cent in language schools, 24.4 per cent in maths and computing and 23.7 per cent in science.

Why was this so?"
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