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Gill, Brian; Timpane, P. Mike; Ross, Karen E.; Brewer, Dominic J.; Booker, Kevin – RAND Corporation, 2007
Education vouchers and charter schools are two of the most prominent and far-reaching forms of family-choice policies currently in evidence in the nation's elementary and secondary schools. As such, they present important challenges to the traditional provision of public education in schools that are created, governed, funded, and operated by…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Book Reviews, Achievement Gains
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Russian Education and Society, 1992
Reports excerpts from a discussion meeting held by a scientific council on problems of youth policy in the USSR in 1990. Discusses the problems of restructuring the Soviet education system in keeping with the goals of Perestroika. Includes comments on socialism, curriculum, and the goals of the education system. (DK)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Communism, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
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Brook, Diane L.; Brook, George A. – Social Studies, 1993
Describes the Somalia Nomad Education Program. States that social studies is the core of the program which has a primary goal of developing national unity. Discusses successful features of the program and its vulnerability to political and economic events. (CFR)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cultural Background, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
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Latka-Johring, Sigrid – European Education, 1991
Discusses the difficulties of educational reform in what was formerly East Germany. Describes the educational system in East Germany as uniform and military in nature. Criticizes the one-sidedness of socialist education and its politicalization. Compares classroom atmospheres before and after the Germanies were united. (DK)
Descriptors: Civics, Civil Defense, Classroom Environment, College Curriculum