Geay, Charlotte; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak … at the end of primary school. We show that the negative correlation observed in the raw data is mainly an artefact of … selection: non-native speakers are more likely to attend school with disadvantaged native speakers. We attempt to identify a …