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Download full textClinchy, Evans – 1987
This guide, second in a series of four volumes, offers a method of surveying parents' attitudes about choosing schools for their children and provides a survey instrument used over a period of 5 years in four Massachusetts urban school districts. Section 1 introduces the basic research questions pursued in the survey. Section 2, "The Parent…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Community Surveys, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Clinchy, Evans – American School Board Journal, 1985
Criticizes national education reports that call for a return to authoritarian schools in order to achieve excellence. Extolls the strengths and achievements for which magnet schools are responsible. (MD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Quality, Educational Research
Clinchy, Evans – 1987
This fourth and final guide in a series of volumes addresses parents who desire assistance in selecting the appropriate school for their child. The guide provides narratives and "real life" descriptions of actual occurrences in schools that advertise themselves as emphasizing a particular style or philosophy of teaching or curricular…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics
