The reach and limits of cultural accommodation: Public schools and Somali Muslim immigrants in Maine

Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 164-203

  Lindkvist, Heather L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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