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Connecting Research and Policy to Reduce Inequality
Ruth N. López Turley
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2016, 2 (5) 272-285; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.13
Ruth N. López Turley
aProfessor of sociology at Rice University, director of the Houston Education Research Consortium, and associate director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research

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Connecting Research and Policy to Reduce Inequality
Ruth N. López Turley
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Sep 2016, 2 (5) 272-285; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.13