What can lotteries do for education?

Theory and Research in Education

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-282

  Stone, Peter ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

education; impartiality; justice; lotteries; schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997967376     PISSN: 14778785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477878508095583     Document Type: Article

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