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Direct linkGiersch, Jason – Educational Forum, 2014
Federal courts have permitted tax credits for tuition at religious schools. Does a religious mission inhibit a school's ability or willingness to teach civic values, such as tolerance for political and religious differences? This essay examines relevant empirical research to find that religious schools, overall, do no worse than public schools at…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Parochial Schools, Democratic Values, Tax Credits
Wearne, Eric – Journal of School Choice, 2013
Georgia's General Assembly passed the 1961 "Tuition Grants Act" as a method for avoiding school desegregation. In 1993, an Atlanta attorney attempted to use the Act to provide private school vouchers. This study compares and contrasts arguments for and against the Act, and public support for the Act, in 1961 and 1993, using Robinson's…
Descriptors: Freedom, Activism, School Choice, School Desegregation
Download full textCatt, Andrew D. – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2014
In this memo, we synthesize information collected recently in two private school surveys, one conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and another by the Friedman Foundation and the Idaho Federation of Independent Schools (IDFIS). After a brief description of the data sources, we present the key survey findings in two sections.
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics
Carl, Jim – Praeger, 2011
This book reveals that, far from being the result of a groundswell of support for parental choice in American education, the origins of school vouchers are seated in identity politics, religious schooling, and educational entrepreneurship. As the most radical form of "school choice," vouchers remain controversial in education today. The U.S.…
Descriptors: Parochial Schools, Community Schools, Freedom, Racial Segregation
Davies, Peter – Journal of School Choice, 2011
The level of fee remissions offered by private schools bears upon the scope for relying on private schools to provide public benefit. Analyses of education voucher systems have generally ignored the possibility that they will partially crowd out school-financed fee remissions. Moreover, variation in fee remissions between private schools may be…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers, Fees
Hossain, Md. Mokter; G. Robinson, Michael – Online Submission, 2012
STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) has been a powerful engine of prosperity in the US since World War II. Currently, American students' performances and enthusiasm in STEM education are inadequate for the US to maintain its leadership in STEM professions unless the government takes more actions to motivate a new generation of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Economic Impact, Human Capital
