"Chemistry for all, instead of chemistry just for the elite": lessons learned from detracked chemistry classrooms

Science Education

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 683-709

  Watanabe, Maika ^a   Nunes, Nicole ^b   Mebane, Sheryl ^b   Scalise, Kathleen ^c   Claesgens, Jennifer ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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EID: 34548600106     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: 1098237X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sce.20213     Document Type: Article

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