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Contemporary special education research : syntheses of the
knowledge base on critical instructional issues / edited by
Russell Gersten, Ellen P Schiller, and Sharon Vaughn.

p. cm. (The LEA series on special education and disability)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8058-2879-6 (cloth : alk. paper) --

ISBN 0-8058-2880-X (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Handicapped--Education--Research--United
States--Methodology. 2. Special education--
Research--United States--Methodology.
3. Meta-analysis. I. Gersten, Russell Monroe, 1947-
II. Schiller, Ellen P. III. Vaughn, Sharon, 1952-
IV Series

LC4019.C575 2000

371.9'07'2--dc21 99-055039
CIP

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