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Douglas Harris; Jamie Carroll; Debbie Kim; Nicholas Mattei; Olivia Carr – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2024
Massive online user review platforms, with their star ratings and text reviews, are reshaping the information available for consumer and public service decisions. We study the leading K-12 schooling platform, GreatSchools, applying machine learning (Natural Language Processing, NLP) to 600,000 reviews that encompass the vast majority of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Effectiveness, Parents, Teachers
Josh Cowen – Harvard Education Press, 2024
In "The Privateers," Josh Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns of the dangers of education privatization. A former evaluator of state and local school voucher programs, Cowen demonstrates how, as such programs have expanded in the United States, so too has the…
Descriptors: Political Influences, Financial Support, School Choice, Privatization
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Sooji Kim; Michael N. Bastedo – AERA Open, 2024
The debate over race-conscious admissions has gained prominence, notably in cases such as Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. In debates on race-conscious admissions, the question is often not whether a student will go to college, but which college the student will attend. Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, we…
Descriptors: College Admission, Racial Factors, Social Class, Race
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Ronny Kjelsberg – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2024
This paper will discuss the concepts of Bildung, subalternity, and physics- and engineering education and where these topics intersect and interact with one another. A central part of the concept of Bildung is educating citizens--active participators in society. At the same time, a central characteristic of subaltern groups is that their voices…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Engineering, Physics, Citizenship Education
Amanda Schmidt – Blueprint Labs, 2024
In urban areas like New York City, school choice systems intend to break the connection between residential segregation and schooling by allowing students to attend schools outside their neighborhoods. If successful, school choice could benefit historically underserved students. However, recent research suggests that achievement gaps and…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, School Choice, Preferences, Student Diversity
Kristen D. Foster – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study sought to explore the lived experience of parents concerning school voucher programs and determine whether parental knowledge of funding discrepancies between income-eligible voucher programs and traditional public schools drives parents' advocacy for vouchers. This research is rooted in the interest convergence theory to explore and…
Descriptors: School Choice, Family Income, Educational Vouchers, Parent Attitudes
US House of Representatives, 2024
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, Secondary Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce that was held to examine school choice. Opening statements were provided by: (1) Honorable Aaron Bean, Chairman, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Opportunities, Hearings, Academic Freedom
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Joshua Cowen; Ryan D. Nowak – National Education Policy Center, 2024
As publicly funded private school tuition systems have expanded, independent research has documented their negative outcomes. However, the prevalence of the programs continues to grow. This brief summarizes the research evidence about vouchers and identifies three areas of policy design that are especially important for student success and a…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Educational Finance, Private School Aid, School Choice
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Luis A. Huerta; Trevor Baisden – National Education Policy Center, 2024
The school-choice landscape in the United States is undergoing a rapid transformation, as states increasingly enact a new form of vouchers called Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). Unlike earlier voucher programs, which generally allowed subsidies only for private school tuition, ESAs represent a radically expansive--and potentially very…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Money Management, Private Schools, Home Schooling
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Felipe Barrera-Osorio; Andrew Dustan; Luis Carlos Carvajal-Osorio – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Over the past five decades, policymakers have introduced Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programs in education as a reform in the presence of "government failure," aiming to increase the freedom of school choice, educational productive efficiency, and social equity. While the evidence regarding charters in US is…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Administration, Influences
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Zhuldyz Amankulova; Christopher Whitsel – European Education, 2024
A diverse education market has formed in Kazakhstan since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Previous studies of educational choice in Central Asia have laid a general foundation, but greater insight into class differences has not been studied in Central Asia. We utilize data collected in 2015 from over 300 households in six cities in Kazakhstan to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Social Differences, Urban Schools
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Trevor Tsz-Lok Lee; Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu – Education and Urban Society, 2024
This study examines the value priorities of Chinese parents regarding their children's education in globally competitive context. Although Chinese parents are often viewed as being excessively controlling of their children and preoccupied with their academic performance, research indicates that contemporary Chinese families hold diverse beliefs…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Academic Aspiration, Global Approach, Child Development
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Roger Pizarro Milian; Dylan Reynolds; Naleni Jacob; Firrisaa Abdulkarim; Gillian Parekh; Robert Brown; David Walters – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Post-secondary education (PSE) experienced explosive growth and diversification over the past century, affording students a range of increasingly complex pathways that they can travel to acquire a credential. In various jurisdictions, governments have made significant investments to facilitate student uptake of unconventional transfer pathways…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Graduates, Foreign Countries
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Stephen Kotok; Catherine C. DiMartino; James Coviello – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
Given recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, specifically "Carson v. Makin", which permit public funding for religious schools, we examine how Catholic diocese and school leaders interpret these legal shifts for Catholic education. We utilize the Catholic education sector in New York City as a case study to examine how Catholic school…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, Educational Finance, Futures (of Society)
Christine Mulhern; Shelby McNeill; Fatih Unlu; Brian Phillips; Julie A. Edmunds; Eric Grebing – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Specialized high schools are an increasingly popular way to prepare young adults for postsecondary experiences and expand school choice. While much literature ex- amines charter school spillover effects and the effects of specialized schools on the students who attend them, little is known about the spillover effects of specialized high schools on…
Descriptors: High Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation
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