This test is unfair: Urban African American and Latino high school students' perceptions of standardized college admission tests

Urban Education

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 321-349

  Walpole, MaryBeth ^a,c   McDonough, Patricia M ^a   Bauer, Constance J ^b,d   Gibson, Carolyn ^c,d   Kanyi, Kamau ^c,d   Toliver, Rita ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Gloucester Township Pub Sch Dist   (United Kingdom)

^c ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Rowan University ^*

^e Peirce College   (United States)

Author keywords

College access; Equity in college admissions; Standardized admissions tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 18544363906     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085905274536     Document Type: Article

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