School-based educational accountability systems: The promise and the pitfalls

National Tax Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 385-400

  Ladd, Helen F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040884243     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2001.2.09     Document Type: Article

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