Planning and Evaluating Change at Scale: Lessons From Reading First

Educational Researcher

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 478-483

  McKenna, Michael C ^a   Walpole, Sharon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

federal programs; literacy policy; program evaluation; reading; Reading First

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957924553     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X10378399     Document Type: Review

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