How educational inequality develops

The Colors of Poverty : Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 105-134

  Farkas, George ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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