Standardized assessment of African American children a sociolinguistic perspective

Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy, and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 167-192

  Hudley, Anne H Charity ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203863442     Document Type: Chapter

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