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Green, Andy – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2009
Income inequality has been rising in Britain for two decades and wealth is also more unequally distributed now than when New Labour first came to power. Various factors have contributed to this, including education which, according to the PISA 2006 data, has more unequal outcomes in the UK than in all but 2 of the 29 tested countries. Comparative…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education
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West, Anne; Hind, Audrey – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
In England, parents make "choices" (in reality, "preferences") for the state-maintained secondary schools they wish their child to attend. If there are more applicants than places, the school's published admissions criteria are used to give priority to applicants. This article examines how school composition in London varies by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Secondary Schools, School Choice