A bit of a curate's egg? Three decades of official thinking about the quality of schools

British Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 4-21

  Gray, John ^a  

^a HOMERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Quality; Schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031478311     PISSN: 00071005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8527.00033     Document Type: Article

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