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What Do We Know (and Need to Know) about the Impact of School Choice Reforms on Disadvantaged Students?

Dan Goldhaber and Eric Eide
Harvard Educational Review July 2002, 72 (2) 157-177; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.72.2.j7q1082836753047
Dan Goldhaber
1 The Urban Institute, Washington, DC
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2 RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh
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