Contrasting paths to small-school reform: Results of a 5-year evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's national high schools initiative

Teachers College Record

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1986-2039

  Shear, Linda ^a,e   Means, Barbara ^a,e,f   Mitchell, Karen ^b   House, Ann ^a   Gorges, Torie ^a   Joshi, Aasha ^a,g   Smerdon, Becky ^c   Shkolnik, Jamie ^d  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

^c URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d American Institutes for Research

^e SRI's Center for Technology in Learning

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 54049089554     PISSN: 01614681     EISSN: 14679620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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