Attitudes Toward Diversity and the School Choice Process: Middle-Class Parents in a Segregated Urban Public School District

Urban Education

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 198-231

  Kimelberg, Shelley McDonough ^a   Billingham, Chase M ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diversity; race; school choice; urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874787347     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085912449629     Document Type: Article

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