Stratification and educational sorting: Explaining ascriptive inequalities in early childhood reading group placement

Social Problems

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 139-160

  Condron, Dennis J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural capital and early childhood education; Grouping; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847057727     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2007.54.1.139     Document Type: Article

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