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Direct linkAjayi, Kehinde F.; Friedman, Willa H.; Lucas, Adrienne M. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Students often make school choice decisions with inadequate information. We present results from delivering information to randomly selected students (and some randomly selected parents) across 900 junior high schools in Ghana, a country with universal secondary school choice. We provided guidance on application strategies and reported the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Centralization, Access to Information, Junior High School Students
Peer reviewedPrieto, Lydia M.; Aguero-Valverde, Jonathan; Zarrate-Cardenas, Gustavo; Van Maarseveen, Martin – Journal of School Choice, 2019
Choosing a specialty school involves huge challenges for families. This research aims to understand the behavioral process that leads families to choose among various specialty school programs. Discrete choice models, based on revealed preferences data from middle school applications in a large school district in Florida, are estimated using both,…
Descriptors: Parents, Preferences, Special Schools, Magnet Schools
Download full textOzmantar, Zehra Keser; Karatasoglu, Dilek – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2019
The purpose of the present study was to examine the reasons of school choices of middle-class families and their children within the context of the neoliberal education policies in Turkish education system. The study adopts a qualitative descriptive research approach. The data were collected via semi-structured interviews. The first study group…
Descriptors: School Choice, Middle Class, Parents, Neoliberalism
Mao, Chin-Ju – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
This paper uses school choice policy as an example to demonstrate how local actors adopt, mediate, translate, and reformulate "choice" as neo-liberal rhetoric informing education reform. Complex processes exist between global policy about school choice and the local practice of school choice. Based on the theoretical sensibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Neoliberalism, Educational Change
Wu, Xiaoxin – Educational Research, 2013
Background: In contrast to the top-down government-designated school choice programmes in many countries, e.g. in the UK and USA in particular, school choice in the Chinese context is a bottom-up movement initiated by parents and is characterised by the payment of a substantial "choice fee" to the preferred school, and by competition by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Case Studies, Parents
Degner, Katherine Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study uses data from the National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09). Parent responses to the Parent Involvement survey, given as part of the NCES study were considered, along with their child's socio-economic status and self-reported level of mathematics course enrollment during their…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Junior High School Students, Course Selection (Students), Demography
