School league tables: What can they really tell us?

Significance

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 67-69

  Goldstein, Harvey ^a   Leckie, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 44449113716     PISSN: 17409705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00289.x     Document Type: Article

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