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Streaming. An education system in miniature

In this volume a streamed school is studied in detail and parents' responses are recorded. Eleven plus is (and has been) under criticism, but many children are selected by a 'seven plus' because they are streamed into A, B or C classes. Few children escape the label once it is pinned on them -- less than six in one hundred change their stream. The study shows that on a national sample the date on which a child is born -- irrespective of his ability -- affects his or her stream at the age of 7 and his results at eleven plus. Finally ten streamed schools are compared, academically and socially.

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