Circumscribed agency: The relevance of standardized college entrance exams for low SES high school students

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-175

  Deil Amen, Regina ^a   LaShawn Tevis, Tenisha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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