Educational Policies and Inequalities in Europe

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Introduction: Towards a Comparison of Priority Education Policies in Europe....Pages 1-20
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Policy Interventions to Reduce Educational Inequalities - The Case of England, 1997–2010....Pages 23-51
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Priority Education Policies in Belgium: Two Modes of Regulation of the Effects of a Market Logic....Pages 55-89
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Twenty-Five Years of Priority Education Policy in France: Dubious Specificity and Disappointing Results....Pages 93-123
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Greece: On Mechanisms and Successive Programmes between Support and Innovation....Pages 127-154
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From the Invention of the Democratic City to the Management of Exclusion and Urban Violence in Portugal....Pages 157-188
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Priority Education Policies in the Czech Republic: Redesigning Equity Policies in the Post-Communist Transformation....Pages 191-219
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Romania: A System in Evolution, Searching for Its Conceptual References....Pages 223-256
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Sweden: Priority Education Policies in Times of Decentralisation and Individualisation....Pages 259-287
General Conclusion: Priority Education Policies in Europe, from One ‘Age’ and One Country to Another....Pages 288-319
Back Matter....Pages 320-325