Educational gaps between immigrant and native students in Europe: The role of grade

Quality and Inequality of Education: Cross-National Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 113-136

  Park, Hyunjoon ^a   Sandefur, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross European comparisons; Grade retention; Immigrants; PISA

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952088030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3993-4_5     Document Type: Chapter

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