The wrath of high-stakes tests

Urban Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-67

  Lattimore, Randy ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High stakes tests; Mathematics education; Minority education; Urban education

Indexed keywords

EID: 18544390127     PISSN: 00420972     EISSN: 15731960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010337013080     Document Type: Article

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