What Does an Index of School Segregation Measure? A Commentary on Allen and Vignoles

Autor/in	Gorard, Stephen
Titel	What Does an Index of School Segregation Measure? A Commentary on Allen and Vignoles
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 33 (2007) 5, S.669-677 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
Schlagwörter	School Segregation; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland
Abstract	This brief response paper seeks to clarify and expand the work of Allen and Vignoles presented in this issue. What Allen and Vignoles have done is useful because it directly replicates my earlier analyses of trends in social segregation between schools since 1989. These findings have had considerable international impact. So, to have them independently confirmed is therefore also important. The same substantive trends appear whatever sensible index of segregation is used--the clustering of pupils living in poverty in the same schools declined in the early 1990s, stabilised in the mid-1990s, and has been increasing since then. However, Allen and Vignoles appear to ignore some of the earlier findings of mine that they have replicated, and make some intriguing errors when discussing how to measure segregation, especially in relation to the properties of the Gorard segregation index (GS). (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10