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A New Admission System in Chile and Its Foreseen Moderate Impact on Access for Low-Income Students
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Honey, Ngaire; Carrasco, Alejandro – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
Chile is known for universal school choice policies and a high level of economic segregation. In part, segregation has been linked to selective school admission policies. Chile implemented a centralized school admission system (New School Admission System), where PK-12 schools must accept any applicant, and lottery assignment is used for…
Descriptors: School Choice, Low Income Students, Admission Criteria, Access to Education
Exploring Education Policies and Their Socioeconomic Implications: Evidence and Insights from Juvenile Crime, College Admissions, and Gender Bias
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Tatiana A. Reyes Hinrichsen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the different aspects of education policies and their socioeconomic implications through three distinct research papers. The first chapter investigates the causal impact of grade retention in primary school on juvenile crime in Chile and it was written jointly with Juan Diaz, Nicolas Grau, and Jorge Rivera. Utilizing a…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Socioeconomic Influences, Elementary School Students, Grade Repetition
Failed Regulations and School Composition: Selective Admission Practices in Chilean Primary Schools
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Carrasco, Alejandro; Gutiérrez, Gabriel; Flores, Carolina – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
This is an exploratory study about pupil selection. Admission regulations are central to understanding issues of school mix, segregation and educational justice. In Chile, student selection has been intensively discussed but scarcely studied. Using a questionnaire for headteachers (N = 581), we explore how school admission processes are organised…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Elementary School Students, Admission Criteria, Questionnaires