African American educators' perspectives on the advanced placement opportunity gap

Urban Review

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-185

  Taliaferro, Jocelyn DeVance ^a   DeCuir Gunby, Jessica T ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced placement; African American student achievement; Operational citizenship

Indexed keywords

EID: 44149091469     PISSN: 00420972     EISSN: 15731960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11256-007-0066-6     Document Type: Article

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