Opportunity to Learn and Conceptions of Educational Equality.

Guiton, Gretchen; Oakes, Jeannie

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ERIC Number: EJ517147

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Publication Date: 1995

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Opportunity to Learn and Conceptions of Educational Equality.

Guiton, Gretchen; Oakes, Jeannie

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v17 n3 p323-36 Fall 1995

Conceptual issues in developing and using opportunity-to-learn (OTL) standards to inform policy questions about equal educational opportunity are discussed. Using two national databases, OTL measures are developed according to Libertarian, Liberal, and Democratic Liberal conceptualizations, and the influence of these concepts on the information provided is compared. (SLD)

Descriptors: Access to Education, Databases, Democracy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Liberalism, Policy Formation, Standards

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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