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Natalie Irmert; Jan Bietenbeck; Linn Mattisson; Felix Weinhardt – Centre for Economic Performance, 2023
We study whether autonomous schools, which are publicly funded but can operate more independently than government-run schools, affect student achievement and school segregation across 15 countries over 16 years. Our triple-differences regressions exploit between-grade variation in the share of students attending autonomous schools within a given…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, Academic Achievement, School Segregation
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Anders Trumberg; Emma Arneback; Andreas Bergh; Jan Jämte – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Swedish compulsory schools are committed to work for equality and social cohesion. Increasing school segregation, however, challenges this commitment. Based on survey data from Swedish municipalities, this article maps and analyses local initiatives that counteract school segregation. We identify three main types of initiatives--reinforcement,…
Descriptors: School Segregation, School Desegregation, Equal Education, Educational Change
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Eduardo Tapia – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Previous studies investigating how the school choice paradigm shapes school segregation have found that students' ethnic school preferences drive school segregation by leading students to rank and change current schools following ethnic homophily orientations. This study investigates an intermediate moment in which these preferences contribute to…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Educational Change, Grade 9, High School Students
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Karin K. Flensner; Ylva Svensson – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2024
The mission of all primary schools includes offering all pupils educational quality and equality. Municipalities struggle with the negative consequences of school segregation, and some local councils decide to implement extensive changes in their school organization to offer all pupils equal opportunities. This study analyzes the experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, School Closing, Consolidated Schools
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Tapia, Eduardo – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Although previous studies have investigated the contribution of several components of the school choice paradigm to school segregation, one critical aspect has not received attention from segregation scholars: schools' priority rules, that is, the rules schools apply in case of oversubscription. We evaluate how three priority rules -- grade-based,…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Policy, School Segregation, Secondary School Students
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Grannäs, Jan; Frelin, Anneli – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
Global trends inspired by neo-liberal tendencies have influenced developments in the Swedish school system. A flurry of educational reforms over the last decades have rapidly transformed the municipal school arena into a market in which independent, for-profit schools have expanded and school segregation has increased. This article examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Dovemark, Marianne; Holm, Ann-Sofie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
The aim of this article is to illustrate how Swedish schools construct different pedagogic identities in the way they marketize themselves. We examine through a Bernsteinian lens how upper secondary schools promote themselves; what identities are being called for by the schools and how these identities are expressed. Moreover, the article intends…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Marketing, Institutional Characteristics
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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Tolgfors, Björn – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
A common problem in contemporary western societies is segregation, which is also reflected in schools. The point of departure for this study is a political initiative in Sweden, where pupils are being transported by bus from a suburb to different schools in the city with the aim of promoting integration and improved performance results. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Segregation, Physical Education, Busing
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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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Lunneblad, Johannes – Ethnography and Education, 2020
Cooperation and partnerships between schools and public organisations, private companies and non-profit organisations have become a common model as a form of governance for addressing social problems. The aim of this article is to explore the strategies used by professionals to counteract segregation at a school located in a multi-ethnic suburb,…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Social Problems, School Segregation
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Yang Hansen, Kajsa; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2016
The aims of the study were to examine changes in school segregation across different types of municipalities between 1998 and 2011 in Sweden, and to explore the extent to which these changes are the consequences of school choice. Multilevel models were applied to register data using a counterfactual approach. The results showed that school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, School Segregation, Municipalities
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Alexiadou, Nafsika; Dovemark, Marianne; Erixon-Arreman, Inger; Holm, Ann-Sofie; Lundahl, Lisbeth; Lundström, Ulf – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
The last 40 years have seen great political attention paid to issues of inclusion in education, both from international organisations and also individual nations. This flexible concept has been adopted enthusiastically in education reforms concerned with increased standardisation of teaching and learning, decentralisation of education management,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Competition, Comparative Education
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West, Anne – Research Papers in Education, 2014
Academies (and free schools) in England and independent grant-aided schools, "fristående skolor" (or "friskolor"), in Sweden have been the subject of much academic debate, but there is a paucity of comparative research relating to policy development or outcomes. This paper adopts a comparative perspective, outlining the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education
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Beach, Dennis; Sernhede, Ove – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
In this article, using data from ethnographic research, we try to present some glimpses of the way education is described as an experience and possibility "from below", by pupils who grow up and study in schools in the most segregated and territorially stigmatized suburbs on the outskirts of our major cities. What we feel they describe…
Descriptors: Citizenship, School Segregation, Disadvantaged, Ethnography
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