A "gap-gazing" fetish in mathematics education? Problematizing research on the achievement gap

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-364

  Gutiérrez, Rochelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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