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Free Marketeers, Policy Wonks, and Yankee Democracy: School Vouchers in New Hampshire, 1973–1976

Jim Carl
Harvard Educational Review December 2008, 78 (4) 589-614; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.78.4.945312181g48285l
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