Neotracking in North Carolina: How high school courses of study reproduce race and class-based stratification

Teachers College Record

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 535-570

  Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin ^a   Everett, Bobbie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b Central Piedmont Community College   (United States)

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