Nonhierarchical curriculum differentiation and inequality in achievement: A different story or more of the same?

Teachers College Record

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1186-1213

  Ayalon, Hanna ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 33744779345     PISSN: 01614681     EISSN: 14679620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9620.2006.00690.x     Document Type: Review

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