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Direct linkAsadolahi, Salar; Farney, James; Triadafilopoulos, Triadafilos; White, Linda A. – Comparative Education, 2022
Across OECD countries, education choice is proliferating as parents seek and governments permit choice both inside and outside public education systems. The movement of students out of the common public school, however, varies significantly across jurisdictions and sociodemographic characteristics such as race and class. This variation in…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Policy, Feedback (Response), Outcomes of Education
Download full textBosetti, Lynn; Van Pelt, Deani; Allison, Derek J. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
This paper provides a descriptive account of the growing landscape of school choice in Canada through a comparative analysis of funding and student enrolment in the public, independent and home-based education sectors in each province. Given that the provinces have responsibility for K-12 education, the mixture of public, independent and home…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, School Choice, Home Schooling, Private Schools
Gaither, Milton, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016
"The Wiley Handbook of Home Education" is a comprehensive collection of the latest scholarship in all aspects of home education in the United States and abroad. This book presents the latest findings on academic achievement of home-schooled children, issues of socialization, and legal argumentation about home-schooling and government…
Descriptors: Guides, Home Schooling, Academic Achievement, Socialization
Davies, Scott; Aurini, Janice – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2003
Homeschooling is becoming increasingly popular in Canada. Drawing on a variety of secondary sources and our own data from the province of Ontario, we advance three arguments. First, homeschooling is gaining legitimacy from the increasingly pluralistic nature of educational politics. Second, the lobbying tactics of homeschool advocates increasingly…
Descriptors: Individualism, Parent Rights, Home Schooling, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWagner, Michael – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1999
The recent establishment of charter schools in Alberta (Canada) has prompted allegations of a radical change towards privatization by the Progressive Conservative (PC) government. However, policy decisions since the 1970s demonstrate that the PC government has consistently supported private alternatives to public education; charter schools extend…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Policy
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Planning Services Branch. – 1984
This study was commissioned by Alberta Education to examine the development and organization of private schools in Alberta and to consider future directions. It examines the financial issues related to private schools, the effect of private schools on public school systems and on the education of children, and implications for public school…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Policy
