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Teaching and Practice: Elementary School Curricula and Urban Transformation

Paul Skilton Sylvester
Harvard Educational Review September 1994, 64 (3) 309-332; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.64.3.u224654m7261v513
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