High-stakes accountability, minority youth, and ethnography: Assessing the multiple effects

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-41

  Sloan, Kris ^a  

^a ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33846999344     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2007.38.1.24     Document Type: Article

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