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Wildt-Persson, A., Per Rosengren, G. (2002). Equity and Equivalence in the Swedish School System. In: Hutmacher, W., Cochrane, D., Bottani, N. (eds) In Pursuit of Equity in Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47579-0_14

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