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Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Disagrees with research showing that socioeconomic status has little impact on parental involvement in children's education. From the author's own experience, working-class parents are as concerned as affluent ones about children's progress, but have less energy/time for participation. In other research, a new assessment instrument may help…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Fractions, Influences
Molnar, Alex; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Neoconservative advocates of private and religious school choice are trying to exploit the dissatisfactions of poor, predominantly minority parents to create a publicly funded private school system free of public control and oversight. This alternative system would inevitably reproduce and legally sanction the "separate but equal"…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
John Lee's little-known 1984 study "Tomorrow's Teachers" shows that potential teachers' grade-point averages during 1974-83 did not decline or differ from other majors' GPAs. A 1996 UCLA study documents resistance to outcomes-based education at 10 schools. Well-educated parents of former high-track students pressured administrators to resegregate…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, De Facto Segregation, Education Majors
