Ball, Bowe, Gerwitz (1994)

• What did they use as their sample?

  15 schools with different population profiles
• What did they find?

  Middle-class parents had a significant advantage over working-class parents when selecting schools.
• How did middle-class parents have an advantage over working-class parents when selecting schools?

  Middle-class parents had:

  
  

  • Better knowledge and contacts to find the best schools
  • More money to send their children to better schools further away