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  1. Johns Hopkins University, USA

    David P. Baker

  2. Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

    Rodrigo Fabrega, Claudia Galindo & Jacob Mishook

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Original language: English

David Baker (United States of America)

Ph.D., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. Professor of Education and Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Director of the Social Science Research Institute. His research interests include education, stratification/mobility and organizations (formal/complex). In 2003 he was awarded the Outstanding International Study of the Year Award from the American Education Research Association jointly with Gerry LeTendre and Brian Goesling. E-mail: dpb4@psu.edu.

Rodrigo Fabrega, Claudia Galindo and Jacob Mishook are doctoral students working in the Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

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Baker, D.P., Fabrega, R., Galindo, C. et al. Instructional Time and National Achievement: Cross-National Evidence. Prospects 34, 311–334 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-004-5310-1

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