Reading Like a Historian: A Document-Based History Curriculum Intervention in Urban High Schools

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-112

  Reisman, Avishag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84855927225     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370008.2011.634081     Document Type: Article

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