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Maroulis, Spiro; Bakshy, Eytan; Gomez, Louis; Wilensky, Uri – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
The authors examine the sensitivity of the school choice treatment effects--as defined as the difference between participants and non-participants in open enrollment programs--to differences in i) the underlying student/household preferences of a school districts, and ii) the program participation rates of the district. Data detailed and broad…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Effect Size, Enrollment
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Lamos, Steve – College Composition and Communication, 2008
This essay analyzes the ways in which subtly but powerfully racist ideologies of language and literacy shaped the institutional development of one writing program for "high-risk" African American college students during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It further theorizes the value of such institutional analysis for counteracting racism…
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Ideology, Writing Instruction
Rodriguez, C. Osvaldo – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2012
Open online courses (OOC) with a massive number of students have represented an important development for online education in the past years. A course on artificial intelligence, CS221, at the University of Stanford was offered in the fall of 2011 free and online which attracted 160,000 registered students. It was one of three offered as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Distance Education