Preparing teachers of color to confront racial/ethnic disparities in educational outcomes

Handbook of Research on Teacher Education: Enduring Questions in Changing Contexts, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 583-605

  Villegas, Ana María ^a   Davis, Danné E ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203938690-70     Document Type: Chapter

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