Twice considered: Charter schools and student achievement in Utah

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 835-849

  Ni, Yongmei ^a   Rorrer, Andrea K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Charter school effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; GROWTH MODELING; PRIMARY EDUCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECONDARY EDUCATION; STUDENT;

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84864037616     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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