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Jennifer B. Ayscue; Victor Cadilla; Mary Kathryn Oyaga; Cassandra Rubinstein – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2024
May 17, 2024 marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled segregated schools were "inherently unequal." At the time, North Carolina was one of 17 states that enforced de jure segregation, that is, segregation by law. The state of North Carolina and the school districts within…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Diversity, School Segregation, School Desegregation
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Linda O. Enow; Sophia Kapcia – Support for Learning, 2024
Parental choice remains a central theme in education policy in England. Parents have the right to choose how their children are educated. For some families this choice is surrendered, with volition and intention, to their local authority which allocates school places after parents, statutory guardians and families have made their decisions. Where…
Descriptors: Referral, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Nontraditional Education, School Choice
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Kevin Welner – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
The growth of state laws creating private school vouchers and charter schools has mounting and alarming ramifications for students' rights, and those ramifications are shaped by a complex and shifting set of legal rules. This article explains the interplay between the increase of these school-choice programs, the U.S. Supreme Court's recent…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Charter Schools, Religious Schools
Tobi Manke – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As school choice expands across the U.S., more states are providing funds to private schools, giving parents options for their children's education. This growth in private schools has heightened the need for accountability in ensuring educational quality and student performance. Transformational Leadership Theory and Systems Theory was utilized in…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accountability, Institutional Characteristics, Academic Achievement
Colleen Hroncich; Jamie Buckland – Cato Institute, 2024
Unlike vouchers and tax credit scholarships that do not allow parents to customize their children's education, Education savings accounts (ESAs) provide funding to pay for part-time classes at public and private schools, tutoring, curricula, services for special needs, and more. As navigating the opportunities that come with ESAs can be difficult,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Best Practices
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Jeremy Singer – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
In education, low-income and racially minoritized students in urban districts are often constructed as 'dependent' -- weak in their social positions but deserving of educational opportunity. This social construction of 'urban' students has been central to school choice politics and policymaking in the United States. In this study, I interrogate…
Descriptors: Urban Education, School Choice, Urban Schools, Low Income Students
EdChoice, 2024
This poll was conducted between September 12-15, 2024 among a sample of 2,252 adults. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region. This report highlights findings pertaining to: (1) Views on K-12 Education; (2) Schooling and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Public Opinion
Carol Burris – Network for Public Education, 2024
Studies of charter closure rates typically focus on year-to-year closures. While important for researchers, such studies provide little guidance to families seeking to understand the risk of enrolling their child in a charter school. That is because studies determining how many schools close each year provide no information on how long the school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, School Choice, Trend Analysis
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Douglas N. Harris – Educational Researcher, 2024
Market-based policies, especially school vouchers, are expanding rapidly and shifting students out of traditional public schools. This article broadens, deepens, and updates prior critiques of the free market logic in five ways. First, although prior articles have pointed to some of the conditions necessary for efficient market functioning, I…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Free Enterprise System, Politics of Education, Outcomes of Education
Matthew H. Lee; John Thompson; Eric Wearne – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Hybrid school enrollments are trending up and many parents express a diverse range of reasons for enrolling their children in hybrid schools. Yet little is known about the pedagogical goals pursued by hybrid schools. We aim to help close this gap in the literature with a stated preferences experiment of hybrid school leaders' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Blended Learning, Evaluation Methods, Program Effectiveness
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Jiaxin Chen; Xinyu Miao – Chinese Education & Society, 2024
China has witnessed significant growth in the number of children affected by internal rural-urban migration. These children predominantly suffer from educational inequalities. Most relevant studies have primarily attributed such inequalities to "hukou"-based exclusion. However, the active agency of rural migrant parents in their…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Migrants, Parents, Personal Autonomy
Antonina Santalova Ed.; Kaire Põder Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2024
Privatization of education has become a prevalent global trend, representing a significant shift from viewing education as a public good to considering it as a private commodity. This transformation is closely tied to the modernization of the state under the principles of neoliberalism. A comprehensive analysis, as presented in this book using…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Hayley E. Abourezk-Pinkstone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of three chapters that examine topics in the economics of education. Chapter 1 tests the impact of holding student loan debt on borrowers' post-schooling decisions, with a focus on how it changes the way they evaluate risks when choosing between jobs. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of an expansion of public-school choice…
Descriptors: Economics, Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Loan Repayment
Marienid Gonzalez Melendez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dual language education is an innovative educational model available for families selecting schools through school choice. While extensive research supports the academic benefits of dual language programs (DLPs) for non-English native speakers and communities of color in the United States, enrollment often does not reflect these populations. This…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, School Choice, Bilingual Education Programs
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Jeremy Singer; Sarah Winchell Lenhoff – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2024
In school choice systems, many families face geographic constraints. Yet, there is limited evidence on the association between school-based transportation and students' school choice, especially in fragmented transportation contexts. Using unique data on Detroit kindergarten students' eligibility and access to school-based transportation, we find…
Descriptors: School Choice, Decision Making, Transportation, School Buses
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