Download or read book Choosing Homes Choosing Schools written by Annette Lareau and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of policy shifts over the past decade promises to change how Americans decide where to send their children to school. In theory, the boom in standardized test scores and charter schools will allow parents to evaluate their assigned neighborhood school, or move in search of a better option. But what kind of data do parents actually use while choosing schools? Are there differences among suburban and urban families? How do parents’ choices influence school and residential segregation in America? Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools presents a breakthrough analysis of the new era of school choice, and what it portends for American neighborhoods. The distinguished contributors to Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools investigate the complex relationship between education, neighborhood social networks, and larger patterns of inequality. Paul Jargowsky reviews recent trends in segregation by race and class. His analysis shows that segregation between blacks and whites has declined since 1970, but remains extremely high. Moreover, white families with children are less likely than childless whites to live in neighborhoods with more minority residents. In her chapter, Annette Lareau draws on interviews with parents in three suburban neighborhoods to analyze school-choice decisions. Surprisingly, she finds that middle- and upper-class parents do not rely on active research, such as school tours or test scores. Instead, most simply trust advice from friends and other people in their network. Their decision-making process was largely informal and passive. Eliot Weinginer complements this research when he draws from his data on urban parents. He finds that these families worry endlessly about the selection of a school, and that parents of all backgrounds actively consider alternatives, including charter schools. Middle- and upper-class parents relied more on federally mandated report cards, district websites, and online forums, while working-class parents use network contacts to gain information on school quality. Little previous research has explored what role school concerns play in the preferences of white and minority parents for particular neighborhoods. Featuring innovative work from more than a dozen scholars, Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools adroitly addresses this gap and provides a firmer understanding of how Americans choose where to live and send their children to school.

Download or read book Selections for Homes and Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Secondary School Selection written by P.E. Vernon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selection for secondary education at 11-plus still arouses widespread controversy; and the psychological techniques which are employed, such as intelligence and attainments tests, are often criticised. Originally published in 1957, under the auspices of the British Psychological Society, a group of psychologists, experienced in this field, tried to present a balanced survey of the situation at the time. They show that the real problems of secondary schooling cannot be solved by simple administrative changes; they arise from historical causes, from the class structure of English society and the educational and vocational ambitions of parents. Psychology has studied the development and differentiation of children’s abilities and interests with age, and thus throws light on the need for, and the consequences of, streaming children in different classes or schools, and the value of alternative systems such as the comprehensive school. Selection at 11-plus, it is admitted, does have harmful effects on teaching in the junior school and produces much emotional strain, though these effects are often exaggerated. It was, in fact, accurate for some ninety per cent of children; yet the implications of its inevitable inaccuracy for some pupils cannot be ignored. The functions, and the value, of intelligence and attainments tests and the essay are examined, and full consideration given to the use of teachers’ estimates of suitability and other techniques. The Report is addressed primarily to teachers, educational administrator, and psychologists – that is people with some background knowledge of the problems involved; but it should also be intelligible and helpful to the educated layman, since the more technical details are confined to Appendices.

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Download or read book A Selection of Hymns for the Use of Sunday Schools With a Supplement written by William Gadsby and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Report of the Committee of Twelve on Rural Schools Appointed at the Meeting of the National Educational Association July 9 1895 written by National Educational Association (U.S.). Committee of Twelve on Rural Schools and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aids in Book Selection for Elementary School Libraries written by Edith Anna Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The High School Choralist A selection of choruses and four part songs from the works of the great masters written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Selection of Spiritual Songs for the Sunday School written by Charles S. Robinson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Download or read book A Selection of Spiritual Songs with Music For the Sunday School written by Charles S. Robinson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Download or read book A selection of hymns for Sunday schools and cottage preaching written by Selection and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lessons for School Life Being a selection from sermons preached in the Chapel of Rugby School during his Head Mastership by A C Tait written by Archibald Campbell TAIT (successively Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aids in Book Selection for Secondary School Libraries written by Edith Anna Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Selection of Hymns for Sunday Schools and Cottage Preaching written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: