National standards for student achievement: Is New Zealand's idiosyncratic approach any better?

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Thrupp, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84883258211     PISSN: 10381562     EISSN: 18394728     Source Type: Journal    
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