A structural analysis of success and failure of Asian Americans: A case of Korean Americans in urban schools

Teachers College Record

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 369-390

  Lew, Jamie ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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