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Elacqua, Gregory; Contreras, Dante; Salazar, Felipe; Santos, Humberto – Cato Institute, 2011
There is a persistent debate over the role of scale of operations in education. Some argue that school franchises offer educational services more effectively than do small independent schools. Skeptics counter that large, centralized operations create hard-to-manage bureaucracies and foster diseconomies of scale and that small schools are more…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
Jeynes, William H. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2008
A meta-analysis was undertaken, including 41 studies to determine the influence of Catholic and Protestant schools. The analysis examined studies undertaken at both the elementary and secondary school level. The results indicate that both Catholic and Protestant school students do better than their counterparts in public schools. In addition,…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Standardized Tests, Catholic Schools, Catholics
Beneke, Chris – American Educational History Journal, 2006
From the colonial period to the present, no form of integration (defined as the opening of institutions and communal spaces to members of different groups) has produced more conflict than the integration of American schools. Struggles to open other locations within the social landscape--such as railroad cars, buses, restaurant counters, and water…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Social Integration, Religious Discrimination
Rangvid, Beatrice Schindler – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The voucher system in Denmark combines unrestricted generous subsidies with substantial autonomy of private schools as to schedule and teaching methods. This has produced a private school sector with a wide variety of school types. This paper uses data on eight cohorts of students (over 510,000 individuals) to compare educational attainment in…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, Private Schools, Protestants
Boston, Rob – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
In this article, the author discusses the "child-to-child evangelism" technique designed by evangelist Franklin Graham to convert America's children to his brand of Christianity. Starting in local public schools, Graham put out this plan whereby children could study evangelism techniques over the Internet and then march into their schools to…
Descriptors: Christianity, Protestants, Parent Rights, Children
Blumenfeld, Warren J. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2006
Using the conceptual organizers of Young's (1990) "faces of oppression," and Hardiman and Jackson's (1997) "levels of oppression," this essay investigates the concept of domination and subordination, Christian privilege, and the subtle and not-so subtle promotion of Christianity in public schooling and in the larger United…
Descriptors: Christianity, Public Schools, Violence, Religious Cultural Groups
Hiemstra, John L.; Brink, Robert A. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2006
Four typical arrangements for relating faith to schooling were developed in Canada during the nineteenth century. All resulted from compromises between the assimilating traditions of Christian Constantinianism and Enlightenment liberalism. These arrangements only reluctantly accommodate the religious diversity within society. Although scholars…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Public Schools, Religion
Carper, James C.; Hunt, Thomas C. – Peter Lang New York, 2007
During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Protestants, Catholics, Home Schooling
Perko, F. Michael – 1983
Protestant and Catholic missionary organizations contributed to the development of American schooling. On the Protestant side, the American Home Missionary Society and the American Sunday School Union provided missionaries who frequently became active in school activities. More importantly, these agencies, typical of the evangelical alliance of…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholics, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
ALKIN, MARVIN C. – 1965
THE HYPOTHESIS THAT PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL EXPENDITURES ARE RELATED TO THE RELIGIOUS COMPOSITION OF A COMMUNITY WAS TESTED STATISTICALLY. EIGHTEEN RANDOMLY SELECTED SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTS FROM A TOTAL OF 130 HAVING MORE THAN 300 PUPILS IN ADA WERE USED FOR THE STUDY. QUESTIONNAIRES ON RELIGIOUS PREFERENCES WERE SENT TO 50 RANDOMLY…
Descriptors: Catholics, Educational Demand, Elementary Schools, Financial Support

Paterson, Frances R. A. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 1999
Challenges to public school materials, curricula, and instructional activities reflect perceptions that conservative Protestants face discrimination in U.S. public schools. Perceptions of religious disparagement trigger the establishment of alternative schools. Concerns over materials and activities that offend Protestants are found in Christian…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes, Protestants
Parmelee, G. W., Ed. – Canadian Subscription and Publishing Co., 1898
This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1898 through December 1898. Among the topics covered in this volume are: aim of a true teacher, child study, circular to superior schools, elementary course of study, model and academy course of study, convention of Protestant teachers, Latin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary Education, Teachers
Sewall, Gilbert T. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
One cannot reflect on centuries of accumulated religious wisdom without experiencing a deepened sense of personal meaning and purpose--a phenomenon often marginalized in progressive education. Contemporary issues have religious dimensions. The four essays assembled in this special section consider religion's role in public education from different…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Values, Progressive Education
Perko, F. Michael – 1982
In Cincinnati, Ohio, between 1836 and 1853, controversy over religious education resulted from religious, ethnic, and political factors. Debate began between Catholics (mostly German and Irish immigrants) and Protestants over which Bible should be used in the public schools. (It was accepted that daily Bible readings were to be a part of religious…
Descriptors: Catholics, Educational History, Ethnic Groups, Political Issues
Denig, Stephen J. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to examine the three overlapping movements during the nineteenth century that sought to provide public support for religious education. The first movement sought to fund denominational schools directly from public revenues. These publicly supported denominational schools received funds from the state in proportion to…
Descriptors: Public Support, Religious Education, Church Related Colleges, Public Schools