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The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty: Aspirations, Effects, and Limitations

David A. Gamson, Kathryn A. McDermott, Douglas S. Reed
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 1-29; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.01
David A. Gamson
aAssociate professor of education in the Department of Education Policy Studies at the Pennsylvania State University
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Kathryn A. McDermott
bProfessor of education and public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Douglas S. Reed
cAssociate professor of government and director of the Program in Education, Inquiry and Justice at Georgetown University
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    Federal Spending on K–12 Education, Fiscal Year 2011

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David A. Gamson, Kathryn A. McDermott, Douglas S. Reed
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Dec 2015, 1 (3) 1-29; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.01

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David A. Gamson, Kathryn A. McDermott, Douglas S. Reed
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Dec 2015, 1 (3) 1-29; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.01
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