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ISRN Education
Volume 2014, Article ID 790179, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/790179
Research Article

Comparison of Teacher Motivation for Mathematics and Special Educators in Middle Schools That Have and Have Not Achieved AYP

Margaret E. King-Sears and Pamela H. Baker

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA

Received 15 November 2013; Accepted 5 January 2014; Published 4 March 2014

Academic Editors: F. Jimenez, B. Marlow, W.-C. Shih, and G. Sideridis

Copyright © 2014 Margaret E. King-Sears and Pamela H. Baker. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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