Using administrative data to estimate graduation rates: Challenges, proposed solutions and their pitfalls

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 16, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Roy, Joydeep ^a   Mishel, Lawrence ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Common core of data; High school graduation; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 45149114032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v16n11.2008     Document Type: Review

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