Investigating social class inequalities in educational attainment : the effects of schools and the validity of free school meal status as a proxy for scio-economic status

I examine one explanation of social class differences in educational achievement, school allocation. Class differences in achievement are decomposed. One term of the decomposition is class differences in "Type A" school effectiveness. This is the effect of class differences in school alloc...

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Main Author: Hobbs, Graham Trevor
Published: University College London (University of London) 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.535734