Poverty is not a learning disability: Equalizing opportunities for low SES children

Poverty is Not a Learning Disability: Equalizing Opportunities for Low SEs Children

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-144

  Howard, Lizette Tish Y ^a   Dresser, Sandy Grogan ^b   Dunklee, Dennis R ^a  

^a Washington Mill Elementary School ^*

^b SGD Consulting   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84949560954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781452219394     Document Type: Book

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