Choice without equity: Charter school segregation;Selección sin equidad: Segregación escolar en las escuelas charter

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 19, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Frankenberg, Erica ^a   Siegel Hawley, Genevieve ^b   Wang, Jia ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational policy; School choice; School demography; Student diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955717572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v19n1.2011     Document Type: Article

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