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Direct linkTooley, James – Education Next, 2005
The accepted wisdom is that private schools serve the privileged. Everyone else, especially the poor, requires public school. The poor, so this logic goes, needs government assistance if they are to get a good education, which helps explain why, in the United States, many school choice enthusiasts believe that the only way the poor can get the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups
Blanc, Cristina S. – 1992
This publication presents a discussion of the status of poor urban children world-wide and the design of a five-nation study of the condition of distressed urban children. Following an introduction, Section 2 describes the urban child project designed to study and advance the plight of urban children in developing nations. Section 3 outlines the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Child Labor, Children
