Uses responses from a large-scale survey of school choice in South Wales to predict the type of school that respondents will choose based on their personal characteristics and the choice criteria they report using. The developed models, based on responses from 1 parent and a child when possible from 794 families, are about 90% successful in…

A study of 794 families in South Wales clearly suggests that parents' and children's reported roles in selecting a new school are susceptible to variations over time. A three-step model predicts that simply dividing families into "alert" and "inert,""disconnected" and "privileged," or…

In light of recent British government reforms, a study of school choice in 33 local schools suggests some effects of increased marketing of schools. Notes that the market for cheap fee-paying schools has been established for a long time, and posits that some of the benefits or damage caused by markets in education should be observable in…