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Schoenfeld, Jane – Exceptional Parent, 2008
Anna has serious learning differences, but she's bright. She was impulsive and irrepressible. She was often subject to high levels of anxiety and had difficulty focusing. She was sociable, but she didn't know how to make friends. Anna needed a calm, structured environment which valued academic achievement, but did not push the students to take on…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Private Schools, Learning Disabilities
Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Center for Civic Innovation, 2008
This paper evaluates the impact of exposure to a voucher program for disabled students in Florida on the academic performance of disabled students who remain in the public school system. The authors utilize student-level data on the universe of public school students in the state of Florida from 2000-01 through 2004-05 to study the effect of the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Severity (of Disability), Mild Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
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Andrews, Lewis M. – Policy Review, 2002
Describes how various European countries are providing school choice for students with learning disabilities, focusing on the experiences of the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark, each of which has adopted school choice as part of its national educational policy, with very different provisions in the area of special education. The paper also…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries