Assessing English language learners' opportunity to learn mathematics: Issues and limitations

Teachers College Record

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 723-746

  Abedi, Jamal ^a   Herman, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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