Pulling Together: Civic Capacity and Urban School Reform

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 841-878

  Shipps, Dorothy ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic capacity; Urban school reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542607807     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/00028312040004841     Document Type: Article

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