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- Experiential Aspects of Elementary School Choice for Upper-Middle Class Urban Americans: How Tough Choices Can Lead Down the Path to "Power Kindergarten" Fitzgerald, Kathryn A. // Advances in Consumer Research;1995, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p633
Examines the experience of upper-middle class families in making elementary school educational choices for their children. Description of issues from each participant's individual experience.
- Stacking the deck for the poor. Viteritti, Joseph P. // Brookings Review;Summer96, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p10
Focuses on school choice in the United States. Comparison with other controversies in American education; Fears of a skimming effect; Approaches to school choice; Legal issues.
- School choice. Pattison, S. // Consumers' Research Magazine;May92, Vol. 75 Issue 5, p40
Reports that School choice programs, in which competition among schools is encouraged by allowing students and parents to `choose' their school, are being touted by many as an important reform for public education. Choice plans vary; School dollar follows the students to the school of their...
- New choices. Pattison, Scott // Consumers' Research Magazine;Jul92, Vol. 75 Issue 7, p40
Reports that two recent events that occurred this spring could change the current situation where for years parents as consumers of education had little or no choice when it came to what school their children would attend. The decision by the Wisconsin State Supreme Court; Upheld the nation's...
- More school choice. Pattison, Scott // Consumers' Research Magazine;Oct92, Vol. 75 Issue 10, p40
Reports that the voters of Colorado will have a chance this fall to make a decision about where their children will be educated. The school choice initiative; Florida Democratic state legislator Darryl Reaves; Details.
- A primer on choice in education: Part I--how choice works. // Education;Summer90, Vol. 110 Issue 4, p520
Part I. Focuses on school choice as a way to improve the performance of schools. Competition issues; Education-choice proposals.
- School choice works, parents say. Hodge, Sharon Brooks // Headway;Oct96, Vol. 8 Issue 10, p22
Analyzes the results of school choice in the United States. Finding that private schools can also improve academic achievement for inner-city children deprived of middle-class home environment; Voucher legislation in Ohio; Parents' praise for the Cleveland Scholarship Program; Value of vouchers.
- For some, school choice is last hope. Hodge, Sharon Brooks // Headway;Oct97, Vol. 9 Issue 10, p7
Focuses on school choice programs from different states in United States as the end resort for people who wants to avail of education services. Milwaukee Parental Choice system; School choice program of Minnesota; Enactment of the charter school legislation in North Carolina.
- From the publisher. Richardson, Willie A. // Headway;Oct97, Vol. 9 Issue 10, p4
Suggests to expand school choice opportunities to every state in the United States. Some grin statistics concerning the state of Dallas public schools cited by Dallas pastor Rev. Raymond Brandt at the National School Choice Organizers Conference; Two major arguments that have been advanced by...
