Does the index of segregation matter? the composition of secondary schools in england since 1996

Educational Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 639-652

  Gorard, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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