Research ArticleIII. ESEA Policy Instruments and Their Future
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Stability and Change in Title I Testing Policy
Lorraine M. McDonnell
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 170-186; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.09
Lorraine M. McDonnell
aProfessor of political science, University of California, Santa Barbara

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