School climate: Research, policy, practice, and teacher education

Teachers College Record

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 180-213

  Cohen, Jonathan ^a   Mccabe, Elizabeth M ^b   Michelli, Nicholas M ^c   Pickeral, Terry ^d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Education Commission of the States

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