International evidence on ability grouping with curriculum differentiation and the achievement gap in secondary schools

Teachers College Record

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1492-1528

  Schofield, Janet Ward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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