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Liberal and Conservative Theories on Urban School Change
March 15, 2004
Charles Payne professor, history, Duke

Charles Payne of Duke University, and author of I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Movement discusses "A Curse on Both Their Houses: Liberal and Conservative Theories of Urban School Change."

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