School District Lines Stratify Educational Opportunity by Race and Poverty

Race and Social Problems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-20

  Ayscue, Jennifer B ^a   Orfield, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Desegregation; Diversity; Educational opportunity; Fragmentation; School districts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924047662     PISSN: 18671748     EISSN: 18671756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12552-014-9135-0     Document Type: Article

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