Sexual Orientation and School Discipline: New Evidence From a Population-Based Sample

Educational Researcher

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 181-190

  Mittleman, Joel ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disparities; equity; gay lesbian studies; gender studies; regression analyses; survey research

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042104548     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X17753123     Document Type: Article

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