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Peterson, Paul E.; Llaudet, Elena – Education Next, 2007
On July 14, 2006, the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a study that compared the performance in reading and math of 4th and 8th graders attending private and public schools. According to the NCES study, students attending private schools performed better than students attending public schools.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 8, Grade 4, Student Characteristics
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Shannon, Sheila M. – Urban Review, 1995
Reports on an ethnographic study of a fourth-grade bilingual classroom that examined the culture created in the classroom and how children were socialized to it. The author argues that for culturally diverse, at-risk students to succeed, the culture of the classroom must be different in its roles, values, beliefs, and expectations than what exists…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Bilingual Students, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research