Remedial education in colleges and universities: What's really going on?

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-85

  Merisotis, Jamie P ^a   Phipps, Ronald A ^b  

^a Institute for Higher Education Policy   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0034336314     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2000.0023     Document Type: Review

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