Genetics and Education: Recent Developments in the Context of an Ugly History and an Uncertain Future

AERA Open

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 1-15

  Martschenko, Daphne ^a   Trejo, Sam ^b   Domingue, Benjamin W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adversarial collaboration; education research; equity; genetics; molecular genetics; polygenic score

Indexed keywords

EID: 85070897305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23328584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2332858418810516     Document Type: Article

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