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Araujo, Marta – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
This paper examines issues of selection, merging an analysis of policy with data from a qualitative case study. It focuses on the "modernisation of the comprehensive principle" proposed by New Labour, in which selection within schools (through setting "by ability") is increasingly encouraged. Data collected at an inner-city,…
Descriptors: Students, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Case Studies