Inside student government: The variable quality of high school student councils

Teachers College Record

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-54

  Mcfarland, Daniel A ^a   Starmanns, Carlos ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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