Middle- and upper-middle-class parent action for urban public schools: Promise or paradox?

Teachers College Record

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Posey, Linn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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