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Tulloch, Margaret – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
Apart from one amalgamation there are as many grammar schools in England as when Labour took office in 1997. Selection at age 11 still influences English education and unless there are changes its effect is likely to increase. Legislation introduced in 1998 which could have ended selection had no effect. The pressure from the right-wing minority…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Educational Legislation, Public Schools
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Dhuey, Elizabeth; Lipscomb, Stephen – Economics of Education Review, 2008
Economists have identified a substantial adult wage premium attached to high school leadership activity. Unresolved is the extent to which it constitutes human capital acquisition or proxies for an "innate" unobserved skill. We document a determinant of high school leadership activity that is associated purely with school structure, rather than…
Descriptors: Human Capital, High Schools, Maturity (Individuals), Student Leadership