The Brown Barge Experience: Toward an Integrative Multicultural Learning Environment

Middle School Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 3-13

  Powell, Richard ^a   Fussell, Linda ^b   Troutman, Porter ^c   Smith, Martha ^b   Skoog, Gerald ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown Barge Middle School   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 34748815731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23276223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00940771.1998.11495317     Document Type: Article

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