The schools are failing: Think tanks, institutes, foundations, and educational disaster

Schooling and the Politics of Disaster

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 159-176

  Kovacs, Philip ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203941720     Document Type: Chapter

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