Class and Parents' Agency in West Virginia: Between Choices and Rights;Entre el mercado y el derecho: El sentido de "agencia" en padres de clase media-baja en una comunidad con acceso universal al Pre-Kindergarten

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 21, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sherfinski, Melissa ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural capital; Home school relations; Neoliberalism; Parent involvement; Universal pre kindergarten; West virginia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884933046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v21n78.2013     Document Type: Article

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