Choice, equity, and the schools-within-schools reform

Teachers College Record

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1930-1958

  Ready, Douglas D ^a   Lee, Valerie E ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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