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Download full textCookson, Peter W., Jr.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Rothman, Robert; Shields, Patrick M. – Learning Policy Institute, 2018
School choice is a hotly debated issue in today's press, politics, and public discourse. In principle, the idea of families being able to choose the public school that is best for their children has widespread appeal. Interest in choice has been fueled in part by distinctive views about educational approaches and in part by the fact that…
Descriptors: Public Education, School Choice, Access to Education, Equal Education
Direct linkLambrev, Veselina; Kirova, Anna; Prochner, Larry – Education Inquiry, 2020
This article examines how early childhood educators, as policy implementers, perceive reforms in Bulgaria's education system that occurred between 2008 and 2018. Both Roma and non-Roma educators participated in this project that compares perceptions of Bulgarian teachers in public schools and Roma educators in informal educational settings…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Hanselman, Paul; Fiel, Jeremy E. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Persistent school segregation may allow advantaged groups to hoard educational opportunities and consign minority students to lower-quality educational experiences. Although minority students are concentrated in low-achieving schools, relatively little previous research directly links segregation to measures of school quality based on student…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, School Segregation, Access to Education, Educational Opportunities
Tarabini, Aina; Curran, Marta; Fontdevila, Clara – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article aims to revisit the relationship between school-level variables and students' educational opportunities through the lens of institutional habitus. This approach is particularly well suited to explore the notion of school culture because it brings to the forefront the impact of social context, avoiding some of the limitations typically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Context Effect, Secondary Schools
Di Virgilio, Alessia – College Quarterly, 2013
This article explores the issues surrounding the establishment of an Africentric public school in Ontario. It provides a historical overview of the foundation of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the U.S. as well as the benefits they provide to Black students, communities and the labor force. It extrapolates the tropes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Afrocentrism, Elementary Schools
Zion, Shelley D.; Blanchett, Wanda – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: Even though not fully realized, in legislation and theory, the requirements of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act and the No Child Left Behind Act have created pressure to address the historical inequity in educational opportunity, achievement, and outcomes, as well as disparities in achievement between…
Descriptors: Social Justice, African American Students, Critical Theory, Social Class
