Less than equal: A former urban schoolteacher examines the causes of educational disadvantagement

Urban Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 107-129

  Fritzberg, Gregory J ^a  

^a SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational disadvantagement; Equal opportunity; Ethnicity; Poverty; School reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 21144454039     PISSN: 00420972     EISSN: 15731960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010341207282     Document Type: Article

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