Legal Rights, Local Wrongs: When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity
- ISBN-10
- 0791489841
- ISBN-13
- 9780791489840
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 338
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Author
- Kevin G. Welner
Description
Shows how education reforms take place within cauldrons of political interests and conflicting values and beliefs.
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- 2001-09-27
- 315 pages
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- 2001-09-20
- 340 pages
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