Limiting Opportunity : Student Race and Curricular Differences in Secondary Vocational Education. A Study of Schooling in the United States. Technical Report Series, No. 28 / Jeannie Oakes.

The relationship between secondary school students' socioeconomic status and ethnicity and their participation in vocational education programs was examined. Analysis of data from 25 secondary schools focused on three questions concerning: (1) the emphasis on vocational programs in non-white, ethnic...

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Main Author: Oakes, Jeannie
Corporate Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Graduate School of Education
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1981.
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Physical Description:65 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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