Capacity building and districts' decision to implement coaching initiatives

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mangin, Melinda M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Coaching; Policy implementation; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903140540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v22n56.2014     Document Type: Article

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