Bureaucratic discretion and alternative teacher certification: Understanding program variation in Missouri

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 15, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-22

  Heinen, Ethan B ^a   Scribner, Jay Paredes ^b  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative certification; Politics of education; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547280984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v15n13.2007     Document Type: Article

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