Finding the old in the new: On race and class in US charter school debates

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-182

  Stambach, Amy ^a   Becker, Natalie Crow ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION POLICY; RACE; RACIAL SEGREGATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745085224     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: 1470109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613320600696730     Document Type: Article

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