Schools and inequality: A multilevel analysis of coleman's equality of educational opportunity data

Teachers College Record

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1201-1246

  Borman, Geoffrey D ^a   Dowling, Maritza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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