Research ArticleIII. ESEA Policy Instruments and Their Future
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The State of Title I: Developing the Capability to Support Instructional Improvement
Susan L. Moffitt, David K. Cohen
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 187-202; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.10
Susan L. Moffitt
aMary Tefft and John Hazen White Sr. Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University
David K. Cohen
bJohn Dewey Collegiate Professor at the School of Education and Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan

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