"Skimming the cream": Admissions to charter schools in the United States and to autonomous schools in England

Educational Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 615-639

  West, Anne ^a   Ingram, Dabney ^a   Hind, Audrey ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Admissions; Autonomy; Charter schools; Creaming

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744946372     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904805284054     Document Type: Article

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