What hard times' means: Mandated curricula, class-privileged assumptions, and the lives of poor children

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 255-291

  Dutro, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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