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Wolf, Patrick J.; Egalite, Anna J. – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2016
This report summarizes the state of competition in American K-12 education. It pays particular attention to the prevalence and market penetration of charter schools, private school vouchers, and tax-credit scholarships as market reforms. The effect of added institutional competition from charters, vouchers, and tax-credit scholarships on the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Competition
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Woolsey, M. Lynn; Herring, Tina J.; Satterfield, Susan T. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2009
Social Studies is a devalued subject in public schools. Worse, apparently no research exists on social studies instruction for students in deaf education. The researchers investigated the allocation of time for social studies in 7 residential schools and 1 day school. Using an ecobehavioral assessment tool, they observed 30 deaf students (grades…
Descriptors: Day Schools, Residential Schools, Partial Hearing, Deafness
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Reback, Randall – Economics of Education Review, 2008
This study examines parents' demand for sending their children to a public school located outside their residential school district. Using a unique data set that contains information concerning both inter-district transfers and rejections of transfer applications, I am able to identify which school district characteristics attract the greatest…
Descriptors: School District Spending, Public Schools, Residential Schools, School Choice
Winkley, William M. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Preparation, Exceptional Child Education, High Schools