Districts’ Responses to Demographic Change: Making Sense of Race, Class, and Immigration in Political and Organizational Context

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 4-39

  Turner, Erica O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

demographic change; education policy; interpretive policy analysis; race; school district leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921341218     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: 19351011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831214561469     Document Type: Article

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