The "spread" of merit-based college aid: Politics, policy consortia, and interstate competition

Educational Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 339-362

  Cohen Vogel, Lora ^a   Ingle, William Kyle ^b   Levine, Amy Albee ^a   Spence, Matthew ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Higher education; Politics of education; State education policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549118515     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904807307059     Document Type: Article

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