Educational Equity and School Structure: School Size, Overcrowding, and Schools-Within-Schools
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Educational Equity and School Structure: School Size, Overcrowding, and Schools-Within- Schools
Consistent with the Williams v. California suit, our focus in this article is on educational equity, particularly the interface between equity and school organization. We concentrate on two structural issues, school size and school overcrowding, and one specific school structure, schools-within-schools. We organize the article as an interpretive summary of existing studies of these topics, conc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Teachers College Record
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0161-4681,1467-9620
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9620.2004.00424.x