ERIC Number: ED274769
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 57
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Newcomers: Blacks in Private Schools. Executive Summary.
Slaughter, Diana T.; Schneider, Barbara L.
The increased enrollment and recruitment of black pupils in urban nonpublic schools prompted this study, which uses an ethnographic approach to investigate the family/school relations of black children and their parents. This executive summary is extrapolated from the first intensive study of black children in ecologically diverse settings. The schools, all located in Chicago, Illinois, include two private elite, one independent alternative, and one Roman Catholic. Two primary research questions are addressed: (1) why do black parents send their children to urban private elementary schools, and (2) what are the experiences of the children in these schools? This summary has three purposes: (1) to present the principal findings of the study; (2) to interpret these findings given the overall conceptual framework, guiding hypotheses, and assumptions of the study; and (3) to draw educational policy implications. (LHW)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL. School of Education.
Identifiers - Location: Illinois (Chicago)
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