Teacher community in urban elementary schools: The role of leadership and bureaucratic accountability;Comunidad educativa en las escuelas primarias urbanas: El papel del liderazgo y la rendición de cuentas burocráticas

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 19, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Weathers, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

And urban schools; Elementary schools; School administration; School policy; Teacher administrator relationship; Teacher autonomy; Teacher collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955745087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v19n3.2011     Document Type: Article

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