Intended and Unintended Effects of State-Mandated High School Science and Mathematics Course Graduation Requirements on Educational Attainment

Educational Researcher

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 230-241

  Plunk, Andrew D ^a   Tate, William F ^b   Bierut, Laura J ^a   Grucza, Richard A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dropouts; educational policy; high schools; higher education; mathematics education; policy analysis; regression analysis; science education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904367867     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X14540207     Document Type: Article

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