Separate and still unequal: Legal challenges to school tracking and ability grouping in america’s public schools

Race is Race Isn't: Critical Race Theory and Qualitative Studies in Education

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 231-250

  Green, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429503504-11     Document Type: Chapter

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