Growing Up American: Schooling and the Survival of Community

ISBN-10
0226661962
ISBN-13
9780226661964
Series
Growing Up American
Category
Community and school
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
1978-01-01
Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Author
Alan Peshkin

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