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Promoting the Success of Latino Language-Minority Students: An Exploratory Study of Six High Schools

Tamara Lucas, Rosemary Henze and Ruben Donato
Harvard Educational Review September 1990, 60 (3) 315-341; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.60.3.0160105tt9kgkq51
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