Student reading growth illuminates the common core text-complexity standard: Raising both bars

Elementary School Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 231-254

  Williamson, Gary L ^a   Fitzgerald, Jill ^b   Jackson Stenner, A ^b  

^a MetaMetrics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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