What Do the California Standards Test Results Reveal About the Movement Toward Eighth-Grade Algebra for All?

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 328-343

  Liang, Jian Hua ^a   Heckman, Paul E ^b   Abedi, Jamal ^b  

^a California Department of Education   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

education policy; high school; mathematics education; middle school

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864807838     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: 19351062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0162373712443307     Document Type: Article

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