Math Growth Trajectories of Students With Disabilities: Disability Category, Gender, Racial, and Socioeconomic Status Differences From Ages 7 to 17

Remedial and Special Education

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 154-165

  Wei, Xin ^a   Lenz, Keith B ^a   Blackorby, Jose ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

disability category; gender; growth trajectories; hierarchical linear modeling; math; race; SES

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876944294     PISSN: 07419325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741932512448253     Document Type: Article

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