Transforming Organizational Structures for Young Adolescents and Adult Learning

Reinventing the Middle School

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 176-200

  Erb, Thomas O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203613542-19     Document Type: Chapter

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