Responding to the charge of alchemy: Strategies for evaluating the reliability and validity of costing-out research

Journal of Education Finance

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-169

  Duncombe, William ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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