Educational aspirations and postsecondary access and choice: Students in urban, suburban, and rural schools compared

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 11, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Hu, Shouping ^a,b  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Educ Research Design at Seton Hall   (United States)

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