What report card grades should and do communicate: Perceptions of parents of secondary students with and without disabilities

Remedial and Special Education

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 280-287

  Munk, Dennis D ^a   Bursuck, William D ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0035537835     PISSN: 07419325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/074193250102200503     Document Type: Article

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