Presents a listing of ERIC documents and journal articles on public school choice as an area of education reform. Includes reports, policy arguments, and surveys of state laws and initiatives and national trends. Provides information for obtaining the listed documents. (DK)

This bibliography on independent schools is divided into seven sections. Secton I, "General History and Sociological Perspectives," lists 3 articles and 25 books. Section II, "Individual School Histories," contains 45 book titles. Part III, "Administration of Independent Schools," has 19 references. Part IV, "Teaching in Independent Schools,"…

This lengthy bibliography in English and French lists documents and journal articles concerning educational finance. Most items were published in Canada and the United States, and a few items include an ERIC accession number. The bibliography is not annotated and is a preliminary draft that may contain errors. (Author/LD)

A series of analyses of "Public and Private Schools," by James Coleman, Thomas Hoffer, and Sally Kilgore, has appeared in the form of conferences, critical papers, and news stories. This document, containing an extensive listing of commentary on the study, is inteded to serve as a reader's guide to the literature on the subject. Included…

The bibliography lists books and pamphlets dealing with private education, published or reprinted in the United States and England from 1950 through 1974. Each of the 866 entries is annotated by a series of terms describing the subject matter and author's approach. The entries are divided into nine major sections covering (1) general, descriptive,…

This report describes proprietary schools, the profit-oriented, privately-owned institutions that train students for job entry. Emphasis is placed on the past and future images of proprietary schools; the number and types of proprietary schools; distinctive operating features; instruction and faculty; students in an out of proprietary schools; the…

Describes the three main factors that make one elementary school a community, including: constructing community in each classroom and throughout the school; reflecting the surrounding community in diversity of students and staff; and connecting with the surrounding community through participation, partnership, and service. (SM)

The second in a series on the independent school curriculum describes multicultural education, suggests questions to ask the entire school community, and contains a bibliography of multicultural curriculum materials. (Author/MLF)

Provides an annotated bibliography of ten recent references (1980-81) on tuition tax credits, 22 items on the background (1973-79) of tuition tax credits, and 15 general references (1979-81) on educational vouchers. (CHC)

When the Federal Trade Commission began an all-out drive in the summer of 1973 to alert the public to pitfalls in enrolling in some vocational and correspondence schools, several significant facts became clear: 10,000 different residential and home-study vocational schools serve about 3.3 million students who pay from $350 to $2000 for a program,…

Literature that is available in high school, small college, and county libraries is collected in this annotated bibliography on the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The bibliography is divided into five sections, the first being an overview of the teachers' union which focuses on critical moments in the history of the AFT. The second section…

Entries in this annotated bibliography are listed under five headings. (1) Sectarian Schools - Critical; this contains 30 citations from periodicals and "New York Times" articles, editorials, letters, and advertisements. (2) Sectarian Schools - Balanced; this contains 36 citations from periodicals and "New York Times" articles and letters. (3)…

Presents an annotated bibliography of books and articles in the field of academic quality ranking research published from 1986 through 1988. Categories of materials covered are ranking and rating in general; private elementary and secondary schools; college guides; ranking by subject areas; regional ranking; international ranking; and ranking…

The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) School Heads Advisory Committee has compiled this guide as a selected, annotated listing of professional organizations, leadership programs, and publications that have been found valuable by school heads in thinking about and carrying out their leadership roles. Each entry in the first two…

Limited to periodical literature, this annotated bibliography on school finance contains 81 references grouped in 5 categories: (1) policy and politica issues, (2) federal government, (3) state issues, (4) aid to nonpublic schools, and (5) accountability. Following the bibliographic citations, annotations range from 4 to 15 lines and conclude by…