Classrooms as racialized spaces: Dynamics of collaboration, tension, and student attitudes in urban and suburban high schools

Urban Education

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1226-1255

  Nunn, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

classroom environment; curriculum tracking; ethnicity; high school; race

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053076664     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085911413146     Document Type: Article

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