Black Milwaukee's challenge to the cycle of urban miseducation: Milwaukee's African American Immersion schools

Urban Education

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Span, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 18744412178     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085902238676     Document Type: Review

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