The color of money: School funding and the commodification of black children

Urban Education

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 545-570

  Vaught, Sabina Elena ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical race theory; Decentralization; Weighted student formula; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350064421     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085908318776     Document Type: Article

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