Regional coalitions and educational policy: Lessons from the Nebraska learning community agreement

Integrating Schools in a Changing Society: New Policies and Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 151-164

  Holme, Jennifer Jellison ^a   Diem, Sarah L ^b   Mansfield, Katherine Cumings ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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