'I don't want to see it': Decoupling ethnicity and class from social structure in Jewish Israeli high schools

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1203-1225

  Mizrachi, Nissim ^a   Goodman, Yehuda C ^b   Feniger, Yariv ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Academic tracking; Class; Ethnicity; High schools; Israel; Stratification

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; CLASS; ETHNICITY; SECONDARY EDUCATION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STUDENT; TRACKING;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 70449381349     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870902890309     Document Type: Article

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