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The Limits and Possibilities of Schooling

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evaluation of educational systems

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    In education: Implications for socioeconomic status

    In The Limits and Possibilities of Schooling (1993), the American sociologist Christopher Hurn proposed one method of evaluating education systems over time. Hurn identified the following set of relationships between variables: first, the correlation between adults’ educational attainment (years of schooling and degrees completed) and socioeconomic…

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