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Title Education systems and inequalities : international comparisons / edited by Andreas Hadjar and Christiane Gross.

Publication Info. Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 353 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 1, 2016).
Summary Education Systems and Inequalities compares different education systems and their impact on creating and sustaining social inequalities.
Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Education systems and inequalities -- Theorising the impact of education systems on inequalities -- Comparing education policies in a globalising world: methodological reflections -- Education systems and intersectionality -- Measuring educational institutional diversity: tracking, vocational orientation and standardisation -- Sorting and (much) more: prior ability, school effects and the impact of ability tracking on educational inequalities in achievement -- Data analysis techniques to model the effects of education systems on educational inequalities -- Education systems and inequality based on social origins: the impact of school expansion and design -- Education systems and gender inequalities in educational attainment -- Tracking, school entrance requirements and the educational performance of migrant students -- From exclusion and segregation to inclusion? Dis/ability-based inequalities in the education systems of Germany and Nigeria -- Education systems and meritocracy: social origin, educational and status attainment -- Education systems and gender inequalities in educational returns -- Education systems and migrant-specific labour market returns -- Health returns on education and educational systems -- Good and bad education systems: is there an ideal? -- Conclusions and summary -- Index
Subject Educational equalization.
Démocratisation de l'enseignement.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
Educational equalization
Added Author Hadjar, Andreas, editor.
Gross, Christiane, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Education systems and inequalities. Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2016 9781447326106 (OCoLC)921864988
ISBN 9781447326113 (electronic bk.)
1447326113 (electronic bk.)
9781447326212
1447326210
9780892217427
0892217421
9781447326106
1447326105
Standard No. AU@ 000062127259
UKMGB 018798443

 
    
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