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Peer reviewedErickson, Donald A. – Theory into Practice, 1978
Attention is focused here on key U.S. Supreme Court cases involved with government aid to private schools. The separation of church and state is the predominant issue. (DS)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Parochial Schools, Private School Aid, Private Schools
Erickson, Donald A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Discusses the baseline data of a longitudinal study of how public aid to private schools will affect both public and private schools in British Columbia. Discusses some reasons for the commitment of teachers, students, and parents to the private schools. (IRT)
Descriptors: Differences, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textMacias, Cathaleene J.; Erickson, Donald A. – 1981
Consequences of the first allocation of public aid to independent schools in British Columbia in 1979 and 1980 were explored in this study. Interviews and questionnaires were used to query principals, education committee (or school board) members in private schools, and superintendents and presidents of teachers' associations in public schools.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Catholic Schools, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education
Erickson, Donald A. – 1974
Nonpublic schools are a surprisingly salient channel for philanthropy in elementary and secondary education. As a result of philanthropy in nonpublic schools, the nation's total collectivity of schools is probably more efficient fiscally, more effective educationally, and more humane in its impact on students and parents than an exclusively public…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Change Strategies, Citizenship, Declining Enrollment
Erickson, Donald A. – 1977
Private education as an area of study offers many opportunities to educational researchers. Four types of research that would include private education are discussed and examples of research possibilities under each type are offered. The first type involves fundamental educational processes. Suggested are studies of the effects of various levels…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research
Erickson, Donald A. – 1978
This paper distills from a research conference, arranged by the Council for American Private Education (CAPE), six questions that constitute an agenda for research on private education. Discussed after each of the following proposed questions are some of the past research studies relevant to the question, and the status of research in progress.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Cooperation, Catholic Schools, Databases
Erickson, Donald A. – 1981
Preliminary results of two surveys of parents, students, and teachers in Catholic elementary schools in British Columbia indicate that public funding for private schools could cause deterioration in the schools' social climates. Data were collected both before and after British Columbia instituted its program of public aid to private schools in…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Cluster Analysis, Educational Environment, Educational Research
