The winner-take-all high school: Organizational adaptations to educational stratification

Sociology of Education

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 267-295

  Attewell, Paul ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 0035639417     PISSN: 00380407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2673136     Document Type: Article

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