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Jennifer L. Alder – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to compare virtual school students' learning outcomes with traditional school students' learning outcomes in Texas. The research design was a quantitative study using a retrospective causal-comparative design. The researcher used archival state assessment data to compare the learning outcomes of K-12 virtual school…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Outcomes of Education, Traditional Schools, Grade 8
Folts, Lynda – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research project was used to examine variables influencing preferred learning modes of online competency-based education (CBE) students registered in a Bachelor's of Organizational Leadership degree program at a traditional university in east Texas, using 4 learning modes (independent, instrumental, interactive, and collaborative). A…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Nontraditional Education, Learning Strategies
Betts, Julian R.; Tang, Y. Emily – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Charter schools represent an increasingly important form of school choice in the United States. Charter schools are public schools, with a difference. Compared to traditional public schools, they are exempted from some of the state laws and regulations that govern traditional public schools. In this way, parents come to have a greater number of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Methods, Meta Analysis, Value Added Models
Foster, Anne – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
The author, a former school board member and currently head of nationwide parent organization, assesses the competition between charter and traditional public schools, concluding that the competition and acrimony among them does not help them deliver a better education. Policies should be focused on helping both types of schools improve education,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Traditional Schools, Educational Improvement, Competition
Baude, Patrick; Casey, Marcus; Hanushek, Eric A.; Rivkin, Steven G. – Cato Institute, 2014
The role of charter schools in improving academic achievement is controversial, and existing evidence has led to contrasting conclusions about appropriate future policies. Past incongruous findings provide support for both advocates and opponents of charter schools. For a deeper understanding of charters as a market-oriented reform, it is…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Traditional Schools, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Kim, Juli; Field, Tim; Hassel, Bryan C. – Public Impact, 2019
Across the United States, a movement to create a new kind of public school--"autonomous district schools"--is giving districts the freedoms charter schools receive. Like charter schools, autonomous district schools are freed from innovation-inhibiting state and district policies, allowing talented educators to make academic and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Public Schools, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Lyons, Guy Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Students face many challenges in the transition to high school. From pressures of high-stakes testing for graduation to transitioning to the high school environment, many diversions can delay or even stop a student's path to graduation. Ninth-grade students are at a pivotal point in their educational careers, and a successful transition to high…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High School Students, Student Needs, Graduation Rate
Villarreal, Mike – Texas Education Research Center, 2020
Each time children change schools, they leave behind friends, and must adapt to a new environment. This new environment may include not only a new school, but also a new home, a new neighborhood, a new part of town, and, potentially, a new family arrangement. This larger array of possible changes will determine if the move causes overall benefit…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Public Schools, At Risk Students, Elementary School Students
Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Carkhum, Rian; Rangel, Virginia Snodgrass – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2013
Over the past several decades, policymakers have sought to address the problem of school failure by exposing traditional public schools to competitive market forces. In this analysis, we examine how two traditional public schools in a "high pressure/high choice" urban school cluster in Texas responded to a number of overlapping choice…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Traditional Schools
Phillips, Richard L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of the study was to determine if differences existed in the performance of Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (T-STEM) academy programs and the performance of traditional Texas comprehensive high school programs on seven indicators of college readiness defined in the Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Readiness, High School Students, STEM Education
Montemayor, Karla Paola – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Throughout the past five to ten years in South Texas, there was a high demand for opening charter schools. Charter schools became the innovative educational reform that provided a plausible solution of schooling other than traditional public schools in South Texas. As of 2014-2015, there were 689 charter schools in Texas serving 238,091 students,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Traditional Schools, Educational Change
Mansell, Nicole; Justice, Madeline – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2014
This study involved identifying, categorizing, and comparing critical incidents related to qualifying dual credit high school students' decisions to enroll or not to enroll in dual credit coursework in either a traditional or early college high school. The purpose of the study was (a) to identify the reasons qualifying students decide to enroll in…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, Critical Incidents Method, Decision Making
Erdogan, Niyazi; Stuessy, Carol – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
The most prominent option for finding a solution to the shortage of workers with STEM knowledge has been identified as specialized STEM schools by policymakers in the United States. The current perception of specialized STEM schools can be described as a unique environment that includes advanced curriculum, expert teachers, and opportunities for…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Grade 11
Turner, Jeffery E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Public schools in the state of Texas are held accountable for performance and quality of education. Accountability is important to all schools, but it is critical to open-enrollment charter schools to remain in good standing. The current economic situation in Texas public education has brought attention as well as the need for alternative…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Exit Examinations, Mathematics Tests, Science Tests
Garcia, Vincent D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Extensive research has compared the overrepresentation of exclusionary (suspension type) consequences of certain groups. However, research has not been conducted to compare institutions that work primarily with at-risk, minority racial groups and those with disabilities, to traditional public institutions. Educational leaders have created numerous…
Descriptors: Discipline, Referral, Charter Schools, Traditional Schools
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