Race and academic achievement in racially diverse high schools: Opportunity and stratification

Teachers College Record

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1038-1063

  Muller, Chandra ^a   Riegle Crumb, Catherine ^a   Schiller, Kathryn S ^b   Wilkinson, Undsey ^c   Frank, Kenneth A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77952588209     PISSN: 01614681     EISSN: 14679620     Source Type: Journal    
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