Family background and school effects on student achievement: A multilevel analysis of the Coleman Data

Teachers College Record

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-132

  Konstantopoulos, Spyros ^a   Borman, Geoffrey D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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