From coordinating board to campus: Implementation of a policy mandate on remedial education

Journal of Higher Education

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 672-697

  Mills, Michael ^a  

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EID: 0032209893     PISSN: 00221546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221546.1998.11780747     Document Type: Article

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