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Patrick J. Wolf; Jay P. Greene; Matthew Ladner; James D. Paul – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2021
Since the start of the new millennium, many states have launched or expanded private school choice options, permitted and expanded independently operated public charter schools, eased restrictions on homeschooling, and enacted policies that allow and encourage various forms of public school choice. One thing that is not on the rise, unfortunately,…
Descriptors: School Choice, National Competency Tests, Academic Achievement, Private Schools
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LaFave, Allison; Kelly, Emily; Ford, Jacob – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This report is based on data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), a nationally representative, longitudinal study of more than 23,000 ninth-graders in 2009. The cohort was surveyed again in spring 2012 when most students were in the eleventh grade. The 2012 survey included questions about whether students had left their…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Mobility, Transfer Students, Home Schooling
Center for Public Education, 2017
Giving parents and students the ability to choose their school is promoted by supporters as the key to improving American education overall. On the surface, the idea has great appeal. Who, after all, opposes having choices? Indeed, both Democratic and Republican policymakers, including President Trump, have embraced school choice as a reform…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Magnet Schools, Charter Schools
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2019
"Ohio Education by the Numbers" offers busy policy makers, journalists, and civic and business leaders simple and easy-to-use vital statistics about Ohio's schools and the students they serve. The facts and figures contained within offer an overview of Ohio's students; where they go to school; their achievement on national and state…
Descriptors: School Statistics, Statistical Data, Public Schools, Student Characteristics
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Iordanou, Kalypso – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
Instant-messaging software was used as a method to promote development of argumentation skills in middle schoolers. Transfer of skills across content domains was the major question investigated. Forty sixth graders engaged in electronic dialogues with peers on a controversial topic--for half a science topic (dinosaur extinction) and for half a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Home Schooling, Grade 6, Computer Mediated Communication
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Sutton, Lenford C.; Bogan, Yolanda K. H. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2005
This article provides a description of home-based education in the state of Florida and addresses the financial queries that often arise in the debate regarding the probative value of homeschooling and its effects on the financial coffers of state legislatures. This simple analysis of home-based education and its financial implications for Florida…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, School Choice, Public Education, Educational Finance