Single-sex Classes and Equal Opportunities for Girls and Boys: Perspectives through time from a mixed comprehensive school in England

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 339-356

  Warrington, Molly ^b   Younger, Mike ^a  

^a HOMERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0347771132     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054980120067393     Document Type: Article

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