"It's going good": Inner-city Black and Latino adolescents' perceptions about achieving an education

Urban Education

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 181-213

  Kaplan, Elaine Bell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 22644451252     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085999342004     Document Type: Article

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