Ecologies of education quality;Ecologias de qualidade educativa

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 21, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Elizabeth Graue, M ^a   Delaney, Katherine K ^a   Karch, Anne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Data use; Ecological framework; Quality; Reform; Value added

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873390487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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