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Beabout, Brian R.; Cambre, Belinda M. – Journal of School Choice, 2013
Set in the context of a choice-saturated public school system, this study examines the school choice process of low-income parents who participated in Louisiana's 2008 voucher program. Based on semistructured interviews with 16 parents at 1 Catholic school, we report that spirituality, small class and school size, character/values, familiarity,…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Decision Making, Low Income Groups
American School Board Journal, 1983
Telephone surveys by the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools found that almost half the parents surveyed had themselves attended private schools and that, in switching their children to private schools, they sought more discipline, higher academic standards, more homework, smaller classes, more individual attention, and greater parent…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Attendance, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education
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Holloway, John H. – Educational Leadership, 2002
Reviews research that finds teachers assigned to smaller classes do not significantly alter the instructional methods they used in larger classes. (PKP)
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education