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Rethinking K-12 Education--and Beyond. Issue Brief
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Domanico, Ray – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2022
New York State's system of public elementary and secondary schools is in steep decline, but it is salvageable. The roots of its problems pre-date the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, but the system's response to that challenge accelerated discontent with the schools and harmed students. The damage of those years will not be undone if…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
The Incorporation of the International Baccalaureate in Magnet Schools in the United States: Survival Strategies of Low Performing Schools
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Resnik, Julia – Educational Practice and Theory, 2015
This paper considers why the International Baccalaureate--a prestigious international education program--is currently being incorporated into magnet schools in the United States. Since the mid-1980s, when school choice policy took root the number of magnet schools climbed and a growing number of them incorporated the International Baccalaureate…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Magnet Schools, Board of Education Policy, School Districts
High School Choice in New York City: A Report on the School Choices and Placements of Low-Achieving Students. Technical Appendices
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Nathanson, Lori; Corcoran, Sean; Baker-Smith, Christine – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2013
This document presents the technical appendices that accompany the full report, "High School Choice in New York City: A Report on the School Choices and Placements of Low-Achieving Students." The appendices include: (1) The Shrinking Pool of Level 1 and Level 2 Students; and (2) Supplemental Tables and Figures. [For the full report, see…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Choice, Student Placement, Low Achievement
High School Choice in New York City: A Report on the School Choices and Placements of Low-Achieving Students
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Nathanson, Lori; Corcoran, Sean; Baker-Smith, Christine – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2013
School choice policies, a fixture of efforts to improve public education in many cities, aim to enable families to choose a school that they believe will best meet their child's needs. In New York City, choice and the development of a diverse portfolio of options have played central roles in the Department of Education's high school reform…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Choice, Student Placement, Low Achievement
Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City's New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
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Howard S. Bloom; Saskia Levy Thompson; Rebecca Unterman – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Over the last decade, New York City has been the site of a systemwide high school reform effort that is unprecedented in its scope and pace. Since 2002, the school district has closed more than 20 failing high schools, opened more than 200 new secondary schools, and implemented a centralized high school admission process in which approximately…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Required Courses, High Schools, School Restructuring
Voucher Research Controversy: New Looks at the New York City Evaluation
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Howell, William G.; Peterson, Paul E. – Education Next, 2004
In "The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools" (Brookings, 2002), the authors and their colleagues reported that attending a private school had no discernible impact, positive or negative, on the test scores of non-African-American students participating in school voucher programs in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Dayton, Ohio.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Urban Schools, Private Schools, Control Groups