Silver bullet or red herring? New evidence on the place of aspirations in education

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 719-738

  St Clair, Ralf ^a   Kintrea, Keith ^b   Houston, Muir ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aspirations; equity; outcomes; place; secondary schooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889100535     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2013.854201     Document Type: Article

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