Cultural match or culturally suspect: How new teachers of color negotiate sociocultural challenges in the classroom

Teachers College Record

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1505-1540

  Achinstein, Betty ^a   Aguirre, Julia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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