Inclusive education in high stakes, high poverty environments: The case of students with learning disabilities in Indiana's urban schools and the graduation qualifying examination

Reinterpreting Urban School Reform: Have Urban Schools Failed, or Has the Reform Movement Failed Urban Schools?

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 77-93

  Manset, Genevieve ^a   Washburn, Sandra ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Indiana's University Center for Excellence on Disabilities   (United States)

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