From Principals' Actions to Students' Outcomes: An Explanatory Narrative Approach to Successful Israeli Schools

Leadership and Policy in Schools

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 395-411

  Tubin, Dorit ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 84859371358     PISSN: 15700763     EISSN: 17445043     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15700763.2011.610556     Document Type: Article

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