Cyber and home school charter schools: Adopting policy to new forms of public schooling

Peabody Journal of Education

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-139

  Huerta, Luis A ^a   González, María Fernanda ^b   d'Entremont, Chad ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33645517627     PISSN: 0161956X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327930pje8101_6     Document Type: Article

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