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Download full textAksoy, Naciye – 1998
Overwhelming scientific and anecdotal evidence indicates that the elementary school experience significantly shapes children's lives. This report examines the history of elementary education, and describes alternatives such as nongraded schools. The first part of the report describes the roots of elementary education in the United States,…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Magnet Schools
Clinchy, Evans – Equity and Choice, 1989
Traditional schooling falls short of preparing students for real-world experience in failing to incorporate informal, "in-context" learning situations. Reviews the literature on experience-based education and cites several successful urban programs that involve students in the educative community through learning experience, career…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
Minnesota State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, St. Paul. – 1992
This report is based on background research and a community forum held in September 1990 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and addresses issues related to equal education for American Indians in Minnesota public schools. Minnesota's Native American population is increasing, is younger than non-Indian Minnesotans, and is becoming more urban than rural. The…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Charter Schools, Demography, Dropout Rate
Fuller, Bruce; Burr, Elizabeth; Huerta, Luis; Puryear, Susan; Wexler, Edward – 1999
School choice, as one avenue toward educational reform, must be placed in context, according to this brief policy analysis. Prepared mainly for policymakers in California and stressing implications for public education in California, the report briefly discusses five samples of school choice: (1) magnet schools; (2) charter schools; (3) open…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Charter Schools, Economics of Education
McCurdy, Jack – 1985
There are parents and students who are to be won or lost depending on which sector--public or private--answers their calls for programs to match their learning styles and desire for rigor, vitality, and variety. This report examines where choice has evolved from, what it offers parents and students, and how its disappearance could affect this…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Catholic Schools, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Bortolussi, Vicki, Ed. – Communicator, 1997
The CAG "Communicator" focus is on serving gifted students in California. This document consists of the four issues of "communicator" issued during 1997. Featured articles include: (1) "The Gifted Student At Risk. It Can't Be True" (Judy Roseberry); (2) "Tech Net-Technology and At-Risk Students" (Judy Lieb); (3) "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Standards, Child Rearing, Educational Technology
