Teacher effects in early grades: Evidence from a randomized study

Teachers College Record

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1541-1565

  Konstantopoulos, Spyros ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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