African American parents in the search stage of college choice unintentional contributions to the female to male college enrollment gap

Urban Education

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-100

  Smith, Michael J ^a,b   Fleming, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; College choice; Parents; Single parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144454420     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085905282255     Document Type: Review

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