Meaningful urban education reform: Confronting the learning crisis in mathematics and science

Meaningful Urban Education Reform: Confronting the Learning Crisis in Mathematics and Science

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-285

  Borman, Kathryn M ^a   Kersaint, Gladis ^b   Cotner, Bridget ^c   Lee, Reginald ^c   Boydston, Theodore ^c   Uekawa, Kazuaki ^c   Kromrey, Jeffrey D ^c   Katzenmeyer, William ^c   Baber, M Yvette ^c   Barber, Jessica ^d  

^a Penn Valley Community College   (United States)

^b City of Tampa Department of Strategic Planning and Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

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