Academic achievement and class placement in high school: Do students with learning disabilities achieve more in one class placement than another?

Education and Treatment of Children

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-72

  Fore III, Cecil ^a   Hagan Burke, Shanna ^b   Burke, Mack D ^b   Boon, Richard T ^a   Smith, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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