Assessment: School performance will fail to meet legislated benchmarks

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5897, 2008, Pages 1781-1782

  Bryant, M J ^a,b   Hammond, K A ^a   Bocian, K M ^a   Rettig, M F ^a   Miller, C A ^a   Cardullo, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; LEGISLATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY EDUCATION;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; MATHEMATICS; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52949106082     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161033     Document Type: Short Survey

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