Educational Performance Indicators and LEA League Tables

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 301-320

  Woodhouse, Geoffrey ^a   Goldstein, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84973076584     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305498880140303     Document Type: Article

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