Early tracking and immigrant optimism: a comparative study of educational aspirations among students in disadvantaged schools in Sweden and the Netherlands

Abstract Educational tracking affects both the trajectories and the composition of peers that students meet in school. This study compares the effect of significant others on students’ educational aspirations within two transition regimes: the more comprehensive Swedish system and the more stratifie...

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Main Author: Olav Nygård
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-12-01
Series:Comparative Migration Studies
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40878-017-0063-1