Dilemmas in scaling up innovations in elementary science instruction with nonmainstream students

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 411-438

  Lee, Okhee ^a   Luykx, Aurolyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Elementary school science; Scaling up; Student diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144499466     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/00028312042003411     Document Type: Review

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