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Helen Ladd

professor, Sanford Institute, Duke

http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/PublicPolicy/hladd

Helen F. Ladd is the Edgar Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies and professor of economics at Duke University. Prior to 1986, she taught at Dartmouth College, Wellesley College, and at Harvard University, first in the City and Regional Planning Program and then in the Kennedy School of Government. [more]

Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa

February 10, 2005

Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske speak about their recent book, Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa, which tells the story of South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system out of the ashes of apartheid.

Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post Apartheid South Africa

Author: Helen F. Ladd, Edward B. Fiske

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press (2004)

Binding: Hardcover, 269 pages

Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy

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Publisher: Routledge (2007)

Binding: Paperback, 784 pages

Market-Based Reforms in Urban Education

Author: Helen F. Ladd

Publisher: Economic Policy Inst (2002)

Binding: Paperback, 62 pages

America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy

Author: John Yinger, Helen F. Ladd

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1991)

Binding: Paperback, 368 pages

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