Passing Reading First: Prominence and processes in an elite policy network

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 89-109

  Miskel, Cecil ^a   Song, Mengli ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b American Institutes for Research   (United States)

^c AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Education policy; Interest groups; Policy elites; Political arenas; Political networks; Reading; Reading First; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944253961     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/01623737026002089     Document Type: Review

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