A new twist in the educational tracking debate

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 307-315

  Zimmer, Ron ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational economics

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; MONITORING; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EID: 0037409242     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7757(02)00055-9     Document Type: Article

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