How superintendents in Virginia deal with issues surrounding the black-white test-score gap

Educational Leadership in an Age of Accountability: The Virginia Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 155-180

  Grogan, Margaret ^a   Sherman, Whitney H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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