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Equality of educational opportunity: Dilemmas and policy options

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This article is a revised version of the author's keynote address given at the Queen's University Teachers' Conference on “Education and Public Policy,” 15 April 1977.

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Pike, R.M. Equality of educational opportunity: Dilemmas and policy options. Interchange 9, 30–39 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01816514

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