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2018
Volume 97, Issue 5
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402

Abstract

This column addresses why race matters in literacy teacher preparation and how teacher-educators and researchers might disrupt pervasive, long-standing race-evasive practices.

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