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Voucher Pathways and Student Achievement in Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program

Megan Austin, R. Joseph Waddington, Mark Berends
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2019, 5 (3) 20-40; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.02
Megan Austin
aResearcher at American Institutes for Research
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R. Joseph Waddington
bAssistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation at the University of Kentucky, where he also holds a secondary appointment in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
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Mark Berends
cProfessor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity
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