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Patricia L. Collier-Bloodworth – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Under the umbrella of the school-choice movement and free-market principles, charter schools have become the preferred choice of school reform for some, while traditional public schools remain the preferred modality of education by others across the United States. The establishment, funding, and selection of students to attend charter schools have…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Private Schools, Reading Achievement, School Districts
Mansheim, Richard Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Few empirical studies explore how socioeconomic status (SES) disadvantaged students perform academically in a 100% online school. This causal-comparative ex post facto quantitative study examined how SES-disadvantaged students at an online charter school performed academically when compared with both SES-disadvantaged and non-SES-disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Socioeconomic Status, Disadvantaged Youth, Academic Achievement
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
Roberts, Eugenia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study is relevant to parents, private organizations, and the educational system interested in discovering whether charter school students perform better academically than traditional public elementary school students. The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment data were used to analyze and compare student performance in grades 3-5 from two…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Charter Schools, Public Schools, School Districts
Benson, Tammy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine two types of school organizational structures: elementary open-enrollment charter schools and elementary traditional public schools. The study examined the degree to which attendance rates (based upon the prior school year's data), class size and average number of years of teaching experience were related…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Open Enrollment, Charter Schools, Traditional Schools
Lindsay-Brown, Sandra J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the impact that a year-round school calendar and a traditional school calendar may have on student achievement at selected elementary schools in North Central South Carolina. Specifically it investigated mean differences in academic achievement between elementary students at two year-round schools versus two traditional…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, School Schedules, Elementary Schools, Language Arts