Closing the Achievement Gap With Curriculum Enrichment and Differentiation: One School's Story

Journal of Advanced Academics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 502-530

  Beecher, Margaret ^a   Sweeny, Sheelah M ^b  

^a West Hartford Public Schools   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 72449178041     PISSN: 1932202X     EISSN: 21629536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4219/jaa-2008-815     Document Type: Article

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