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Between exhortation and reform—Recent U.S. experience with educational change

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Adams, D., Cornbleth, C. & Plank, D. Between exhortation and reform—Recent U.S. experience with educational change. Interchange 19, 121–134 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01807107

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