How does leadership affect student achievement?1 Results from a national US survey

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-336

  Louis, Karen Seashore ^a   Dretzke, Beverly ^a   Wahlstrom, Kyla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Instruction; Leadership; Student achievement; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955969554     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2010.486586     Document Type: Article

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