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Direct linkNeild, Ruth Curran – Urban Education, 2005
With No Child Left Behind legislation permitting students to switch from so-called failing schools, key questions are whether parents will act to select another school and which schools they will choose. Long-standing school choice systems provide evidence about low-income parents' strategies to gather information and negotiate the application…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Grade 8, Social Networks, School Choice
Peer reviewedPeng, Samuel S.; And Others – Urban Education, 1992
Develops a definition of inner-city children based on community location and poverty level, and applies this definition to eighth grade data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988. Inner-city students differ from others in racial and ethnic backgrounds, family incomes, parents' education and employment, and family composition. (SLD)
Descriptors: Definitions, Demography, Ethnic Distribution, Ethnic Groups
