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Díez-Gutiérrez, Enrique-Javier; Palomo-Cermeño, Eva – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
In Spain there is an increasing trend towards educational policies allowing completely free choice of schools. The purpose of the review described here was to investigate whether school segregation arising from grant maintenance arrangements is an item taken into account when policies for educational equity are under consideration in Spain. It…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, School Segregation, Equal Education, Educational Policy
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Intxausti-Intxausti, Nahia; Oregui-González, Eider; Azpillaga-Larrea, Verónica – Improving Schools, 2022
The aim of this study was to characterize those schools in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country (Spain) with high numbers of immigrant students in accordance with their effectiveness level (high or low). Three effectiveness criteria (scores, residuals, and times) were used to select the schools, resulting in three models: a ceiling or…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Attitudes, Outcomes of Education, School Effectiveness
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Maria Menegaki – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This paper addresses aspects of alternative proposals taking place in the public education system, based on an anthropological, ethnographic, comparative study of alternative schools and educational projects in Catalonia. More specifically, it first explores educational change in Catalonia through time and on the present, with a special focus on…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Change, Cultural Differences, School Choice
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Murillo, F. Javier; Belavi, Guillermina – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2021
There is evidence of the impact of school segregation on students' academic achievement, but it is debated whether the extent of this impact is dependent on students' socioeconomic status, or on their native or non-native condition. This research addresses the problem in Spain, seeking to determine how immigrant and socioeconomic segregation…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Academic Achievement, Immigrants, Peer Groups
Bonal, Xavier – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2019
The concentration of social groups in certain geographic areas and institutions is not a new phenomenon, but since the current migration crisis, one of the world's largest since the end of the Second World War, it has reached an unprecedented level. This poses important challenges to many education systems: the arrival of newcomers often leads to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, School Segregation, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
OECD Publishing, 2019
Many countries are struggling to reconcile greater flexibility in school choice with the need to ensure quality, equity and coherence in their school systems. This report provides an international perspective on issues related to school choice, especially how certain aspects of school-choice policies may be associated with sorting students into…
Descriptors: School Choice, Equal Education, School Segregation, Academic Achievement
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Weis, W. Charles, III – Education and Urban Society, 2020
Prior research suggests that parents of Hispanics, English learners, and students living in poverty exercise school choice less frequently than other parents, which may be a factor in the resegregation of public schools. This quasi-experimental, causal-comparative design tests whether ethnicity, language dominance, or socioeconomic status of the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, English Language Learners, Low Income Students, School Choice
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Reese, Leslie; Silva, Patricia; Antúnez, Serafín; del-Arco, Isabel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
A growing and increasingly diverse immigrant population in Spain, and in particular in the region of Catalonia, places new and challenging demands on the educational system. In this study, we use a minority language rights framework to examine how Catalan educators conceptualize the linguistic and cultural rights of immigrant students, and the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immersion Programs, Civil Rights, Geographic Regions
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Sanchez-Valero, Joan-Anton; Padilla-Petry, Paulo – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
This article presents partial results of a multi-sited ethnographic study about the role of multiple literacies in young people's learning in and outside school. In one of the five participant secondary schools, fourth grade students were segregated in groups according to their special needs. We start with a critical review on segregated and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Secondary School Students, Multiple Literacies, Inclusion
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Mancebón-Torrubia, María Jesús; Ximénez-de-Embún, Domingo Pérez – Education Economics, 2014
The aim of this paper is to test whether the distribution of students by social, cultural and racial characteristics is homogeneous between Spanish public schools (PS) and publicly subsidised private schools (PSPS) or whether segregation exists between the profile of pupils attending each type of school. The theoretical framework is based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Public Schools, Private Schools
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Garcia-Gracia, Maribel; Donoso Vázquez, Trinidad – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
This study carries out a comparative analysis of achievement according to gender between mixed and single-sex schools in the region of Catalonia, Spain, for the subjects of Spanish, Catalan, English and Mathematics. After a brief contextualisation, a review of the main findings from international studies on differences in results for mixed schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Coeducation, Academic Achievement
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Simo, Nuria; Telford, Jon – Improving Schools, 2012
The arrival over the last 15 years of a substantial number of pupils of immigrant origin has presented Catalan schools with significant challenges. The schools in Vic (70 km north of Barcelona) have been at the forefront of attempts to adjust to this new multicultural reality. This article describes the results of three studies carried out by the…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, School Choice, Educational Research, Academic Achievement
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Bonal, Xavier – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
This article shows how the Catalan government has not developed an agenda to tackle school segregation despite the growing number of migrant pupils who arrived over the course of the last decade. Education policy has explicitly disregarded the possibilities of improving the regulatory framework for tackling segregation; it has exercised…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Migrants, Educational Change
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Alegre, Miquel Angel; Benito, Ricard; Gonzalez, Isaac – Journal of School Choice, 2010
This article deals with the debate on the assessment of pupils' socioeconomic dispersion among schools. First, the paper complements the traditional way of measuring "segregation," which refers to the distribution of a specific subgroup of pupils across different schools, by introducing a new measure which we call "school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Socioeconomic Status, Municipalities
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Rambla, Xavier; Valiente, Oscar; Frias, Carla – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
In many countries choice of school is an increasing concern for families and governments. In Spain and Chile, it is also associated with a long-standing political cleavage on the regulation of large sectors of private-dependent schools. This article analyses both the micro- and the macro-politics of choice in these two countries, where low-status…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Social Status, School Choice, Foreign Countries
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