Middle school choices for bilingual latino/a youth: When the magnet school represents "status" and the neighborhood school represents "solidarity"

Urban Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 251-268

  Cuero, Kimberley K ^a   Worthy, Jo ^b   Rodríguez Galindo, Alejandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual students; Latinos; Magnet school programs; Middle school; Solidarity; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 69049121438     PISSN: 00420972     EISSN: 15731960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11256-008-0106-x     Document Type: Article

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