Schools in Transition: Reform Efforts and School Capacity in Washington State

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-201

  Borko, Hilda ^a   Wolf, Shelby A ^a   Simone, Genet ^a,b   Uchiyama, Kay Pippin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

School change; School reform; Standards based reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142138732     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/01623737025002171     Document Type: Article

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