The link between advanced placement experience and early college success

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 873-891

  Klopfenstein, Kristin ^a   Kathleen Thomas, M ^b  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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