Assessing school council contribution to the enabling conditions for instructional capacity building: An urban district in Kentucky

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 419-454

  Talley, Wade Kenneth ^a   Keedy, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Instructional capacity building; School reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745656011     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124506287981     Document Type: Article

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