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Download full textAllen, Rebecca; Higham, Rob – London Review of Education, 2018
The opening of new state schools by non-state actors has intensified debates about social selection and inequality in quasi-markets. This article examines the case of England, where the government allows anyone to apply to open a new 'free school', arguing this will improve social equity. Using data from the National Pupil Database for all 325…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Neighborhoods, Student Recruitment
Direct linkGreen, Francis; Allen, Rebecca; Jenkins, Andrew – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
Supporters and critics of free schools in England have had differing expectations about whether free schools would emerge in socially disadvantaged areas, and whether they would become socially selective. We investigate the outcomes, using information from the first three years since the introduction of the first new schools in 2011, drawn from…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Disadvantaged Environment, Free Schools, School Location
