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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
Kathryn A. McDermott
bProfessor of education and public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Douglas S. Reed
cAssociate professor of government and director of the Program in Education, Inquiry and Justice at Georgetown University
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David A. Gamson, Kathryn A. McDermott, Douglas S. Reed
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