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Smith, George; Smith, Teresa – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
Focusing on data and policies from England, trends in educational disadvantage by area are traced from the late 1960s when the first pilot projects were established in the UK, to the present. The origins of these developments and the subsequent rises and falls of such area-based policies in England are reviewed. Specially collected data for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educationally Disadvantaged, Geographic Location
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Tomlinson, Sally – Oxford Review of Education, 2005
From 1997 the New Labour government was eager to affirm a commitment to social justice and racial equality, and initially there were moves to address some long-standing educational grievances. But a continuation of Conservative market policies of choice and diversity in schooling and a targeting of 'failing' schools exacerbated school segregation…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Minority Groups, School Segregation, Academic Achievement