Making sense of an urban district's adolescent literacy reform

NASSP Bulletin

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 227-246

  Patterson, Jean A ^a   Eubank, Heather ^a   Rathbun, Shelia E ^a   Noble, Steve ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent literacy; organizational theory; qualitative research; urban education

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651104722     PISSN: 01926365     EISSN: 19301405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192636510387826     Document Type: Article

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