USA - Her own words: Turning around an under-performing school

Leading Schools Successfully: Stories from the Field

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7-18

  Minor Ragan, Yvonne ^a   Jacobson, Stephen ^b  

^a Buffalo Promise Neighbourhood ^*  (United States)

^b Educational Administration   (United States)

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EID: 84920424942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203740309     Document Type: Chapter

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