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No Simple Answer: Critique of the Follow Through Evaluation

Ernest House, Gene Glass, Leslie McLean and Decker Walker
Harvard Educational Review July 1978, 48 (2) 128-160; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.48.2.j2167r4594027x87
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Ernest House, Gene Glass, Leslie McLean, Decker Walker
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Ernest House, Gene Glass, Leslie McLean, Decker Walker
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