This article studies socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment in 21 European
countries for cohorts born between 1925 and 1989, and asks the question whether reforms …

Part 2: Possible explanations four The clustering of access to schools 47 five Differential
attainment at school 65 six Differential school effects 81 seven School improvement 101 …

The degree of social reproduction varies considerably between industrialized countries,
raising the question of which institutional regulations promote or restrict this process …

International research has consistently found that the socioeconomic segregation of schools
may worsen inequalities in schooling outcomes through the socioeconomic compositional …

Education and Elitism discusses polemical debates around privilege, private schools, elitist
universities, equal access to education and underlying notions of fairness. The overarching …

This discursive article discusses some of the inherent and durable problems associated with
human capital discourses in education. While human capital is regarded as a core element …

Education, Inequality and Social Class provides a comprehensive discussion of the
empirical evidence for persistent inequality in educational attainment. It explores the most …

Background While the relationship between school socioeconomic composition and student
academic outcomes is well established, knowledge about differential effects is not extensive …

Con esta investigación se pretende determinar si es más adecuado considerar la
segregación escolar por nivel socioeconómico de las familias o por nivel de estudios de los …

This article illustrates the links between different ways of assessing disadvantage at school
and subsequent qualification outcomes at age 16 in England. Our previous work has …