It's only part of the story: The fallacy of improved outcome data in new york city's effort to make its high schools small

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 247-268

  Shiller, Jessica ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; School reform; Urban education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951661005     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: 15523535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124509356517     Document Type: Article

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