Teacher effects and the achievement gap: Do teacher and teaching quality influence the achievement gap between black and white and high- and low-SES students in the early grades?

Teachers College Record

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3024-3073

  Desimone, Laura M ^a   Long, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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