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Gorard, Stephen; Hordosy, Rita; See, Beng Huat – Journal of School Choice, 2013
This article describes the social and economic "segregation" of students between schools in England, and the likely causes of its levels and changes over time. It involves a re-analysis of the intakes to all schools in England 1989-2011, and shows how strongly clustered the students are in particular schools. The pattern for primary-age…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, School Choice
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Gorard, Stephen – British Educational Research Journal, 2009
This paper presents a new analysis of segregation between schools in terms of pupils living in poverty, for all secondary schools in England from 1996 to 2005. This shows that the clustering of similar pupils in specific schools increased noticeably from 1996 to 2001, but then settled at a level still below that of 1989 when official records…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Influences, Educational History
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Gorard, Stephen; Taylor, Chris; Fitz, John – Journal of Education Policy, 2002
Considers the notion of schools in a "spiral of decline," in which less popular schools within a market system lose numbers and increase their proportion of socially disadvantaged pupils over time. Using data derived from all secondary schools in England from 1989 to 1999, finds little evidence for any increase in the existence of such…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Economically Disadvantaged, Failure, Foreign Countries