Whole school improvement and restructuring as prevention and promotion lessons from STEP and the project on high performance learning communities

Journal of School Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 177-202

  Felner, Robert D ^a   Favazza, Antoinette ^b   Shim, Minsuk ^b   Brand, Stephen ^b   Gu, Kenneth ^b   Noonan, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

HiPlaces; Prevention; Restructuring; Step; Whole school improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035285798     PISSN: 00224405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4405(01)00057-7     Document Type: Article

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