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Mitchelson, Hayley; Adams, Dawn; Simpson, Kate – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: Autistic students are reported to move schools at a high rate, but little is understood about why this is happening. What is known is that the effects of school mobility can negatively impact both short- and long-term outcomes, particularly the child's learning, behaviours, mental health and school retention. Aims: The aim of this…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Student Mobility, Home Schooling
Leukert, Aimee – Journal of School Choice, 2022
Parents have specific and peculiar reasons for choosing the schools that they do for their children. Numerous attempts have been made to bring clarity to the matter, but the decision-making processes for school choice -- especially as it pertains to faith-based schools -- remain somewhat murky. I posit that the religious and cultural identity of a…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Religious Factors, Religion, Identification (Psychology)
Houlihan, Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A qualitative phenomenological study was used in this study to explore the reasoning behind a parent's decision to send their child to a suburban, predominantly white, private school in the city of West Palm Beach, Florida, where high-income families are highly prevalent. Ten parents of newly enrolled high school students were recruited to…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Decision Making, Parent Attitudes
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2022
This implementation guide was developed to assist states that want to give more families access to needed educational opportunities and the ability to customize their children's learning. Surging enthusiasm among voters and policymakers means more states are likely to launch Education Scholarship Account (ESA) programs in the immediate future. The…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Program Implementation, State Action, Private Schools
James Edward Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Colleges and universities spend billions of dollars each year to enroll a shrinking population of college-bound students. However, relatively little is known about the high-ability, high achieving students whose enrollment decisions can have positive effects on retention, graduation, faculty satisfaction, alumni giving, and overall institutional…
Descriptors: School Choice, High Achievement, Individual Characteristics, College Bound Students
Tori Thomas; Camila Cigarroa Kennedy; Brian Holzman; Stephanie Potochnick – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2024
This brief explores the characteristics of the high schools that newcomer students choose to attend in the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Using data from the 2007-2008 through 2018-2019 school years, the study compares the high school enrollment patterns between newcomer students who attended Las Americas, a school dedicated to…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Middle School Students, Immigrants, Institutional Characteristics
Lucy Bailey – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This article employs critical discourse analysis of the Spear's Schools Index of 'the best private schools in the world', the first such global ranking of schools, to understand representations of elite education in globalised societies. It argues that the Index is a powerful text that exemplifies a global gaze -- an imagined perspective from…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection
Cheng Zhong – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
School choice policy in China aims to achieve educational equity by limiting school choice. Synchronous Admission Reform (SAR hereafter) is a recent school choice reform in China, which continues to limit parents' autonomy and strengthen the equal distribution of school resources. This study explores Chinese middle-class parents' (n = 21) justice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Equal Education, Parent Grievances
T. J. D'Agostino; Jonas Vernimmen; Audrey Feldman – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
This study offers a comparative examination of desegregation policy reforms in Belgium, Chile, and the Netherlands, addressing equity reforms to universal school choice systems. Through an analysis of the reform trajectories, we explore the evolution of policies, the causal mechanisms of change, efforts to institutionalize policies, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Diversity (Institutional), Selection Criteria
Luis Carlos Carvajal Osorio – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I study some of the factors that determine schooling decisions in middle-income economies in Latin America. In the first chapter, I examine the impacts of a large-scale program in Colombia that installs water treatment facilities in rural schools. To identify causal effects on student and community outcomes, I leverage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Decision Making, Economics
Kevin Cahill – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
This paper explores how special educational needs (SEN) and social class can become intertwined in post-primary school choice in Ireland. The paper draws on data generated during a three-year ethnographic study of a DEIS school. Data are analysed using Holland et al.'s (1998. Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds. Boston, MA: Harvard University…
Descriptors: Social Class, Special Education, Educational Needs, Special Needs Students
Elizabeth K. Jeffers – Educational Policy, 2024
Departing from mainstream accounts of the post-Katrina New Orleans state takeover and the more recent "unification" of schools under local governance, this case study utilizes the plantation (Hartman, 1997; Woods, 1998, McKittrick, 2011) as a theoretical device and the silenced archive (Trouillot, 2015) as a method of inquiry to better…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational Quality
Alan Gottlieb – Education Next, 2024
In the ever-shifting world of school choice, what began as a homegrown charter-school network's small experiment in microschooling stands out as unique -- and as a uniquely promising model for replication. Gem Prep, a network of seven brick-and-mortar K-12 charter schools in Idaho, anchored by a longstanding and high-performing online school,…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Success, Charter Schools, School Choice
K. Dara Hill – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2024
This community-based research study examined the perspectives of African American parents of middle-class economic status who participated in a social network pertaining to school choice decisions during the pandemic era of virtual schooling. Their residency and school choices emerged against the grain of urban schools that have racially charged…
Descriptors: Middle Class, African Americans, Parent Aspiration, Social Networks
Cordes, Sarah A.; Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Singer, Jeremy; Trajkovski, Samantha – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
The COVID-19 crisis caused the educational system's sudden and drastic upheaval as parents were forced to decide where their children would attend school and how they would get there. These decisions were complicated by the uncertainty surrounding what type of online or hybrid schooling districts would offer, the health risks of different…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Enrollment Trends, Student Mobility