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Now is a Great Time to Compute the Per-Unit Cost of Everything in Education

January 1, 2010

BY Laura Anderson

Marguerite Roza

Published January 2010 in Harvard Education Press

This paper examines how calculating the per unit costs of what schools or districts can deliver can provide the best insight into the implications of all that spending.

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