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ERIC Number: EJ517147
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
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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Identifiers: Opportunity to Learn
Note: Versions of articles in this issue were presented at a special symposium entitled "Sleepless in Woodland Hills: The Leigh Burstein Legacy" at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 18-22, 1995).