The Influence of Secondary and Junior Schools on Sixteen Year Examination Performance: A Cross‐classified Multilevel AnalysisFootnote∗

∗We are most grateful to Sally Thomas for her comments on a draft. This work was supported partly by the Economic and Social research Council under its programme for the Analysis of Large and Complex Datasets.

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