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Hadderman, Margaret – 2002
This article examines so-called "alternative schools," taking care to define precisely what is meant by this designation. There are many types of alternative education available to the public, including those programs intended for special-education students, advanced-placement students, and home-schooled children. The first alternative schools…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Nontraditional Education, Program Effectiveness
Hadderman, Margaret – 2002
This article looks at a rapidly growing form of distance education: virtual schools. Also known as cyber schools, these Internet-based programs enroll fewer than 50,000 students nationwide, but more and more companies are entering this market. Some examples of these virtual schools are the Willoway CyberSchool, which was founded by a former…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet
Belfield, Clive – 2002
This digest examines prospects for educational voucher reforms across the U.S. education system. Currently, fewer than 20,000 U.S. students use publicly-funded school vouchers in Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Florida. As a proportion, this figure is tiny. Education voucher programs are neither prominent nor popular now. Whether they proliferate over…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Hadderman, Margaret – 2002
This document looks at the increasing popularity of charter schools for intradistrict school choice. During 2000, about 1,700 charter schools were serving some 250,000 students in the United States. Charter schools typically begin as preexisting schools or as "startups" born with charters. States seem to have ambivalent attitudes toward charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Hadderman, Margaret – 2002
This report discusses homeschooling as an option for parents looking for educational choice. Keeping track of homeschoolers is difficult since many return to the public schools. Some estimates claim that in the late 1960s there were 10,000 to 15,000 homeschooled children in the U.S. By 1999, those who were homeschooled ranged in numbers from…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling, Instructional Effectiveness
Weaver, Tyler – 1992
Controlled school choice attempts to provide choice while maintaining ethnic and racial integration. The following elements are found in most controlled-choice plans: (1) any program that is successful in one zone must be replicated in all the other zones; (2) parent information centers are available to help parents make educated choices; (3)…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Hadderman, Margaret – 2002
This paper describes magnet schools as thematic islands of choice within a traditional district-assignment plan. These "islands of choice" are currently the most popular destination with those who exercise some choice in where they send their children to school. During the 1991-92 school year, 3,200 magnet schools were in operation, hosting some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Klauke, Amy – 1989
This Digest advocates alternative educational programs as ways to reduce dropout rates, increase academic and personal satisfaction and achievement, provide real options for struggling students, and generate improvement in all grade levels. The study discusses five concerns in relation to alternative school programs: (1) issues raised regarding…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Innovation, Nontraditional Education
Hadderman, Margaret – 2002
This article examines contract schools and their influence on U.S. education. Schools that are contracted out may be viewed as a privatization development that both parallels and builds upon the charter-school movement. They can be defined as publicly funded schools operated by an independent group of teachers and administrators under a contract…
Descriptors: Contracts, Economics of Education, Educational Administration, Educational Trends
Hadderman, Margaret – 2002
This document provides an overview of public-school voucher plans. Educational vouchers originated in the 1960s when Milton Friedman argued that vouchers would improve educational efficiency. Parents would receive the equivalent of per-pupil expenditures in the form of vouchers that could then be used at any school, either public and private. But…
Descriptors: Economics of Education, Educational Administration, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Scott, James – 1986
The three principal choices in primary and secondary education include home schooling, attendance at private schools, and attendance at public schools nearest the home. However, parents feel that more options are necessary, due to the inadequacy of particular public schools or the need for educational programs not offered in public schools. Thus,…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Magnet Schools, Open Enrollment
Hadderman, Margaret – 2002
This article examines an increasingly popular alternative to government-funded voucher plans: private voucher and scholarship plans. Through the 1998-99 school year, spending on privately funded voucher programs totalled $61 million. Private vouchers began with the Golden Rule Program in Indianapolis in 1991 and was inspired by insurance CEO J.…
Descriptors: Economics of Education, Educational Administration, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Hadderman, Margaret, Comp. – 2002
This document examines many of the issues surrounding school choice. It summarizes the prevalence of school choice and touches on elements of the debate, such as the dilemma in finding the right balance between individual/family freedom and the interests of the community. In looking at school-choice options, the paper divides them into…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Administration, Educational Trends, Educational Vouchers
Rehfuss, John – Research Roundup, 1995
Privatization calls for substantially trimming the scope and breadth of government services, replacing them with private or other nongovernmental operators. The attraction of privatization is reduced costs and increased management flexibility. To date, the arrangement has received substantial support from students and parents in situations that…
Descriptors: Contracts, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Hadderman, Margaret – 2000
Educational vouchers are the most controversial of numerous school-choice alternatives. This ERIC Digest in Spanish provides some background on the topic and discusses the support educational vouchers has received, as well as arguments for and against vouchers. The digest supplies information concerning the degree of success for voucher programs…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Government School Relationship