Chapter 2 Long-Term Trends in Schooling: The Rise and Decline (?) of Public Education in the United States

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 69-105

  Black, Sandra E ^a   Sokoloff, Kenneth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

history of education; public education

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949107663     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)01002-6     Document Type: Review

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