High-Quality Learning Opportunities in High Poverty Middle Schools: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality

Reinventing the Middle School

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 155-175

  Mac Iver, Douglas J ^a   Young, Estelle ^a   Balfanz, Robert ^a   Shaw, Alta ^a   Garriott, Maria ^a   Cohen, Amy ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Philadelphia Education Fund   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203613542-18     Document Type: Chapter

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