It's not enough to get through the open door: Inequalities by social background in transfer from community colleges to four-year colleges

Teachers College Record

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 452-487

  Dougherty, Kevin J ^a   Kienzl, Gregory S ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Health and Social Development Program American Institutes of Research   (United States)

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EID: 33645303496     PISSN: 01614681     EISSN: 14679620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9620.2006.00658.x     Document Type: Review

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