High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates: Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions

High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates: Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-140

  Hauser, Robert M ^a   Koenig, Judith Anderson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.17226/13035     Document Type: Book

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