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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1978
This annotated bibliography highlights eleven publications on educational vouchers. Issues discussed include several voucher systems, the value of increased parental decision-making, and nonvoucher systems of educational options. The authors included in the bibliography also discuss how vouchers may promote freedom of choice but reduce equality of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Peer reviewedBlank, Rolf K.; Archbald, Douglas A. – Clearing House, 1992
Discusses the record of magnet schools in increasing and equalizing student opportunity, building educational quality, and improving student learning. (SR)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Equal Education, Magnet Schools, Politics of Education
Joyce, Mary Ann – New Schools, New Communities, 1995
Describes the Horizons-on-the-Hudson Magnet School for the Gifted and Talented, an inner-city school of the Newburgh Enlarged School District (New York). The programs of the K-6 school have drawn a diverse student population to take advantage of the options designed to expand a child's horizons. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Peer reviewedBolanos, Patricia Miller – NASSP Bulletin, 1996
An Indianapolis magnet middle school is successfully using mental models and multiple intelligences theory to guide collaborative professional development and equitable education. A curriculum originally developed for gifted and talented students is now accessible to all students. The program draws upon students' individual strengths across all…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Equal Education, Gifted, Individual Differences
Mason, Marilynne S. – New Schools, New Communities, 1995
Describes the Knight Fundamental Academy, a magnet school in the Denver (Colorado) public school system. The academy has demonstrated academic achievement through a rigorous course of instruction in the fundamentals with traditional teaching. Parent involvement is an essential part of the school's philosophy, as are respect and good manners. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Estes, Nolan, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This two-part anthology of research summaries examines the potential of magnet schools to provide equal education and educational access for minority group children and reviews successful magnet programs. Part 1, "Magnet Schools, Desegregation, and Choice," contains the following chapters: (1) "Using Magnet Schools for…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
PDF pending restorationCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1978
In this report, 22 successful integrated educational programs in California are described in terms of school environment, services offered, grade levels served, curriculum emphasis, number and ethnic composition of participants, funding, location, staffing, special facilities, method of bringing students together, time students spend in program,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Counseling, Elementary Secondary Education
