Special education use among the Negev Bedouin Arabs of Israel: A case of minority underrepresentation? [1]

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 377-396

  Dinero, Steven C ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; EDUCATION; MINORITY GROUP; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0036911081     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1361332022000030897     Document Type: Article

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