Adequacy judgments and school reform

School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 159-194

  Hess, Frederick M ^a  

^a AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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