Parental School Choices in Market-Oriented School Systems: Why Middle Class Immigrants Self-Select into Specialized Academic Programs
abstract: This study addresses racial segregation in schools by examining the self-selecting patterns of middle class Asian immigrant parents in a public non-charter school district who enrolled their children in specialized academic programs. This phenomenological study focused on the educational h...
Other Authors: | Padilla, Hoang-Thuy Phan (Author) |
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14513 |
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