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Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 21, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Baker, Bruce D ^a   Oluwole, Joseph O ^b   Green, Preston C ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High stakes; Race to the top; Value added models (VAM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873398346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v21n5.2013     Document Type: Article

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