State efforts to improve students’ reading and language arts achievement: Does the left hand know what the right is doing?

Reading Research and Instruction

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 267-286

  Miller, Samuel D ^a   Hayes, Colleen T ^a   Atkinson, Terry S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

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EID: 85009577168     PISSN: 08860246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19388079709558244     Document Type: Article

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