Remedial/developmental education and the cost of community college transfer: A Los Angeles county sample

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 401-431

  Melguizo, Tatiana ^a,d   Hagedorn, Linda Serra ^b   Cypers, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Rossier School Education   (United States)

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