"No backpacks" versus "Drugs and murder": The promise and complexity of youth civic action research

Harvard Educational Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 352-378

  Rubin, Beth C ^a   Hayes, Brian F ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78049337923     PISSN: 00178055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17763/haer.80.3.p709264772m6186g     Document Type: Article

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