Factors associated with low achievement among students from Nairobi's urban informal neighborhoods

Urban Education

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1056-1077

  Ejakait, Epari ^a   Mutisya, Maurice ^b   Ezeh, Alex ^b   Oketch, Moses ^b   Ngware, Moses ^b  

^a MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^b AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

Author keywords

academic achievement; informal private schools; Kenya; Nairobi; public schools; urban informal neighborhoods

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051699052     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085911400323     Document Type: Article

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