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Intercollegiate Studies Inst., Inc., Wilmington, DE. – 1998
This guide, intended to help students and their parents select a college, offers analyses of the quality of instruction, the level of academic standards, the campus political atmosphere, and the college's liberal arts tradition. The book, with an introduction by William J. Bennett, describes 100 schools, which were selected on the basis of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, College Bound Students, College Choice
Raywid, Mary Anne – 1987
Starting with the contention that we need to restore a wider range of choice to parents in their children's education, this paper lists and reviews the varieties of public education currently available throughout the country, and discusses their advantages and disadvantages. These varieties include magnet schools, alternative schools, independent…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education, Experimental Schools
Walmsley, Sean A.; Walmsley, Bonnie Brown – 1996
With the message that parents need to become informed about the educational practices that affect their children, this book offers a guide to different approaches to kindergarten, expectations for incoming students, and ways to obtain needed information for parents new to the process of schooling. Following an introduction that calls for increased…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Class Size, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education