Teacher effects on minority and disadvantaged students' grade 4 achievement

Journal of Educational Research

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 73-86

  Konstantopoulos, Spyros ^a   Chung, Vicki ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Long Wing Education Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

minority students; school achievement; teacher effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951636336     PISSN: 00220671     EISSN: 19400675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220670903567349     Document Type: Article

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