Promoting educational equity in a period of growing social inequity: The silent contradictions of Texas reform discourse

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 320-332

  Anderson, Gary L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0035532823     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124501333007     Document Type: Review

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