Change agentry and the quest for equity: Lessons from detracking schools

The Sharp Edge of Educational Change: Teaching, Leading and the Realities of Reform

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 72-96

  Oakes, Jeannie ^a   Wells, Amy Stuart ^b   Yonezawa, Susan ^c   Ray, Karen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Higher Education Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

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