A curriculum study of gifted-student learning in the language arts

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 30-44

  Van Tassel Baska, Joyce ^a   Zuo, Li ^a   Avery, Linda D ^a   Little, Catherine A ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

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EID: 0040671537     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001698620204600104     Document Type: Article

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