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Big Change Questions – Is Large-scale Educational Reform Possible?

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Stringfield, S. Big Change Questions – Is Large-scale Educational Reform Possible?. Journal of Educational Change 3, 63–73 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016539814319

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