When and How Do Students Benefit From Ethnic Diversity in Middle School?

Child Development

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1268-1282

  Juvonen, Jaana ^a   Kogachi, Kara ^a   Graham, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE SCHOOL; PERCEPTION; RACE; STUDENT; TEACHER; WELLBEING; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; BULLYING; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CRIME VICTIM; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; LONELINESS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; BULLYING; CHILD; CRIME VICTIMS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS;

EID: 85045573778     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12834     Document Type: Article

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