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Whitty, Geoff – Journal of Education Policy, 2001
Concerned about working-class failure, argues that recent (British) government policies have insufficiently considered sociological studies on how social class affects educational success or failure. Social-inclusion policies must address forms of middle-class self-exclusion from mainstream public education as well as working-class social…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Educational Sociology, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries