Measuring funds of knowledge: Contributions to latina/o students' academic and nonacademic outcomes

Teachers College Record

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2209-2257

  Rios Aguilar, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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