Swedish free schools have no impact on achievement, research finds
Catherine Gaunt
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Children from better-off families make small gains in their educational performance in free schools in Sweden - the model for the UK's coalition Government policy - but the effect does not last and schools have no impact on the achievements of poor or immigrant children, according to new research.
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