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Title: Examining the Role of Intergroup Relations in Black and Hispanic Parents' Preschool Enrollment Decisions
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: State and local governments are seeking to expand preschool programs for lowincome children and to enroll an increasingly ethnically and culturally diverse population. To ensure that expanded preschools equitably serve populations who are currently under-represented in current preschool programs, policymakers must understand the contexts that influence parents’ enrollment decisions. This set of three mixed-methods studies examines the influence of inter-racial and inter-ethnic group relations on the preschool enrollment decisions of black and Hispanic parents in a region experiencing a burgeoning Hispanic population. Paper 1: Historic and contemporary studies provide evidence that racial and ethnic relations affect parents’ selection in to and out of schools in the K-12 education context. However, no study examines whether racial and ethnic group relations . . . .
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Authors: Hill, Zoelene
Institution: Duke University
Department: Public Policy Studies
Advisor: Anna Gassman-Pines
Degree: PhD
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity
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