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Schools and social mobility

Education is widely considered to be an important ladder for upward social mobility. But what kind of system produces the most social mobility — a selective system or a comprehensive one?

Holland Park Comprehensive School in London in the 1960s
Roger Mayne/Mary Evans

This article is extremely important with regard to discussions about the relative merits in terms of social mobility of selective and comprehensive secondary education systems.

Vikki Boliver and Adam Swift give a clear explanation of the methods used, and also details of three important questions that guided this research.

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