Constraints to implementing educational innovations: The case of multigrade schools

International Review of Education

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 31-48

  Benveniste, Luis A ^a   McEwan, Patrick J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; TEACHING;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 0034049699     PISSN: 00208566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003922321999     Document Type: Article

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