Tracking How Ideas Become Higher Education Policy and Practice: The Challenges of Gathering Comparative-State Policy Implementation Data

State Postsecondary Education Research: New Methods to Inform Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 77-95

  Goldrick Rab, Sara ^a   Shaw, Kathleen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84991609727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781003447092-5     Document Type: Chapter

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