Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-400

  Dowd, Alicia C ^a   Melguizo, Tatiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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