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The Quest for a Targeted and Effective Title I ESEA: Challenges in Designing and Implementing Fiscal Compliance Rules
Nora Gordon, Sarah Reber
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 129-147; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.07
Nora Gordon
aAssociate professor of public policy at Georgetown University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Sarah Reber
bassociate professor of public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research

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Nora Gordon, Sarah Reber
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Dec 2015, 1 (3) 129-147; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.07
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