The role of inequality in teacher quality

Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and The Black-White Test Score Gap

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 212-249

  Corcoran, Sean P ^a   Evans, William N ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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