Culture and processes affecting data use in school districts

Teachers College Record

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 132-154

  Firestone, William A ^a   González, Raymond A ^b  

^a Graduate School of Education ^*  (United States)

^b Berkeley Elementary School   (United States)

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