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Direct linkOrfield, Gary, Ed.; Ayscue, Jennifer B., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2018
School choice is an increasingly important part of today's educational landscape and this timely volume presents fresh research about the competitive admissions policies of choice systems. Based on their investigation of a unique civil rights challenge to school choice admissions policies in politically and racially divided Buffalo, New York, and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Admission (School), Urban Schools
Download full textAlberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1998
This publication explains the ABCs of Alberta's school system. The text details Alberta's goals, various levels of responsibility, funding, public and private schooling, academic core and optional programs, home education, testing, high-school diploma requirements, programs for students with special needs, and programs for students from other…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions
Beryl Buck Inst. for Education, San Rafael, CA. – 1989
This research review summarizes the current research literature regarding Gesell screening. It also explores the controversy over whether developmentally unready children should be held out of kindergarten, retained at the end of the kindergarten year, or placed in pre-kindergarten or pre-first grade classes. A seven-page bibliography on…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Early Childhood Education, Grade Repetition, Individual Development
Southeastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE), Tallahassee, FL. – 2001
This glossy folder is intended for parents to keep important papers related to their children's school. On the inside flaps of the folder are written in Spanish: (1) a list of suggested school-related papers that parents could keep in the folder; (2) a space for parents to write information about the schools their child has most recently attended;…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Attendance, Children, Childrens Rights
PDF pending restorationMulticultural Education, Training and Advocacy (META), Inc., San Francisco, CA. – 1993
This one page notice to parents, printed on separate pages in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese, emphasizes that all children have the legal right to a free public education, regardless of their immigration status. Immigrant children do not need a green card, visa, passport, or any other proof of citizenship or immigration status in order…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Attendance, Childrens Rights
Needle, Stacy – 1991
This book offers guidance to high school seniors and college transfer students desiring college admission even if they possess low SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores or spotty grade point averages. The book begins by describing alternative admissions programs that accept students who would not otherwise meet the entrance standards of a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), College Admission
