Accountability for equity: Can state policy leverage social justice?

Educational Equity and Accountability: Paradigms, Policies, and Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 51-79

  Skrla, Linda ^a   Scheurich, James Joseph ^b   Johnson, Joseph F ^d   Koschoreck, James W ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203465615     Document Type: Chapter

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