"If I had a new notebook, I know things would change": Bright underachieving young men in urban classrooms

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 174-194

  Hébert, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 0039299737     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001698620104500303     Document Type: Article

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