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The Daily Mail opens by telling readers that deprived white British pupils are outperformed by every other ethnic group, then two sentences later reports that Irish and Roma Traveller pupils do worse. Its headline also turns the Education Secretary's words about pupils falling behind into the outlet's own claim that data shows they are failed at every stage. The rest of the report attributes the inquiry's figures and quotes clearly.
Makes a false claim
Severe
“outperformed at GCSE by every other ethnic group in similar circumstances”
Why this matters
The words "outperformed at GCSE by every other ethnic group" state in the outlet's own voice that deprived white British pupils come last of all groups.
The impression it gives
A reader believes white British pupils on free school meals have the lowest GCSE results of any ethnic group in England.
The context
The article's own next figures contradict this. S3 says they are the worst performing group only after Irish and Roma Traveller pupils, so at least two groups in similar circumstances do worse. The opening claim is wrong by the article's own account.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“the worst performing group in the country after Irish and Roma travellers”
Written straight
White British pupils on free school meals have among the lowest GCSE results of any ethnic group in similar circumstances, ahead only of Irish and Roma Traveller pupils, the inquiry's data shows.
Headline goes beyond the article
Minor
“as data reveals they are failed at every stage”
Why this matters
The words "data reveals they are failed at every stage" present a verdict that the system fails these pupils as a finding of the data, in the outlet's own voice.
The impression it gives
A reader believes the inquiry's data itself shows these pupils are failed by schools at every stage.
The context
The phrase "at every stage" comes from Lucy Powell, quoted in the body saying the pupils are "falling behind". The headline drops her attribution and hardens "falling behind" into "failed", which no source in the article says.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“Ms Powell said on Sunday that white working-class pupils are 'falling behind at every stage of their education'”