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Full-Text Articles in Sociology
Access To Better Education: The School Choice Experience Of Families Served By Low-Performing Elementary Public Schools In Miami-Dade County, Letania Severe
Access To Better Education: The School Choice Experience Of Families Served By Low-Performing Elementary Public Schools In Miami-Dade County, Letania Severe
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Public school choice education policy attempts to create an education marketplace. Although school choice research has focused on the parent role in the school choice process, little is known about parents served by low-performing schools. Following market theory, students attending low-performing schools should be the primary students attempting to use school choice policy to access high performing schools rather than moving to a better school. However, students remain in these low-performing schools. This study took place in Miami-Dade County, which offers a wide variety of school choice options through charter schools, magnet schools, and open-choice schools.
This dissertation utilized a …
“Namastey London”: Bollywood Movies And Their Impact On How Indians Perceive European Destinations, Bharath M. Josiam Ph.D., Daniel Spears Ph.D., Kirti Dutta Ph.D., Sanjukta A. Pookulangara Ph.D., Tammy L. Kinley Ph.D.
“Namastey London”: Bollywood Movies And Their Impact On How Indians Perceive European Destinations, Bharath M. Josiam Ph.D., Daniel Spears Ph.D., Kirti Dutta Ph.D., Sanjukta A. Pookulangara Ph.D., Tammy L. Kinley Ph.D.
Hospitality Review
The aim of this study is to analyze the perception of European destinations through the eyes of Indian Bollywood film viewers to determine how perception is influenced by what is viewed in films. Researchers surveyed Indian consumers and collected 670 usable surveys. European destinations were divided into top five and bottom five destinations for Indian tourists, and data was then compared to world tourism statistics. Results indicate differences in destination preference among Bollywood viewers and worldwide tourist trends. Findings indicate that prominently featuring a landscape within Bollywood films can significantly impact Indians’ perception on the destinations’ image. European countries frequently …
Hospitality Graduate Students’ Program Choice Decisions: Implications For Faculty And Administrators, Hubert B. Van Hoof, Luorong Wu, Lu Zhang
Hospitality Graduate Students’ Program Choice Decisions: Implications For Faculty And Administrators, Hubert B. Van Hoof, Luorong Wu, Lu Zhang
Hospitality Review
Despite rapid growth in the quality and volume of hospitality graduate research and education in recent years, little information is available in the extant body of literature about the program choices of hospitality management graduate students, information that is crucial for program administrators and faculty in their attempts to attract the most promising students to their programs. This paper reports on a study among graduate students in U.S, hospitality management programs designed to understand why they chose to pursue their degrees at their programs of choice. Given the large numbers of international students presently enrolled, the study additionally looked into …