Injecting charter school best practices into traditional public schools: Evidence from field experiments

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1355-1407

  Fryer, Roland G ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911460989     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qju011     Document Type: Article

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