The education of black children: Why do some schools do better than others?

Educating Our Black Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 28-44

  Blair, Maud ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203995648-10     Document Type: Chapter

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