Advances in research on teaching students who experience difficulties in learning: Grappling with the issue of access to the general curriculum

The SAGE Handbook of Special Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 187-206

  Gersten, Russell ^a,b   Santoro, Lana Edwards ^c  

^a University of Oregon ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c Instructional Research Group   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781848607989.n15     Document Type: Chapter

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