Do some schools narrow the gap? Differential school effectiveness by ethnicity, gender, poverty, and prior achievement

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-314

  Strand, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Differential effectiveness; Ethnicity; Progress; School effects; Underachievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955938902     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243451003732651     Document Type: Article

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