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Ferrier, Fran; Smith, Chris Selby – 2001
Data from an Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry survey of approximately 350 employers were reanalyzed to determine the effects of organization size and geographic location on the implementation of User Choice, which provides public funds to training providers chosen by apprentices and trainees. Among the respondents, 41.1% were small and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Apprenticeships, Contract Training, Educational Finance

Hargreaves, David H. – Oxford Review of Education, 1996
Argues from a modified libertarian position that diversity and choice in school education are desirable unless some convincing argument and evidence can be shown that the costs greatly outweigh the benefits and any costs incurred cannot be reduced or overcome by limited state intervention. (MJP)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Diversity (Institutional), Educational Finance, Educational Mobility

Walford, Geoffrey – Oxford Review of Education, 1996
Discusses the difficulties in using cost-benefit analysis in education, examines in detail some of the documents supporting the modified libertarian position, and traces the development of policy on school choice. Documents the various new forms of selection that accompany increased choice and considers problems of social segregation. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Diversity (Institutional), Educational Finance

Swanson, Austin D. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1995
Explores British and American policy analysts' disparate perceptions about utility of major educational reforms (school-based management, school choice, and national standards). The Tories got carried away with their ideological agenda and have alienated teachers and the public. American educators are debating centralization/decentralization, but…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Context Effect, Decentralization, Educational Change

White, Mary-Alice – Education and Computing, 1989
Identifies 12 major trends in the field of education and technology. Topics discussed include school choice; integrating new technologies and the traditional curriculum; visual vs. logocentric curriculum; distance learning; problems with evaluation; increasing business pressure on public education; the impact of minority students; commercial…
Descriptors: Commercial Television, Curriculum Development, Distance Education, Educational Technology

Rossell, Christine H.; Glenn, Charles L. – Urban Review, 1988
Analyzes the history and outcomes of parent choice and magnet schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Finds that parent choice has resulted in greater interracial exposure than the prior mandatory reassignment plan, and that student achievement has increased. (FMW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans, Elementary School Students

Witte, John F. – Social Science Quarterly, 1995
Considers three factors largely ignored in simple market models of educational choice. Religious faith and discipline play an integral part in both the choosing families and the subsequent school environments. Participating families remain in the middle and upper classes. Participating schools can, and do, refuse students. (MJP)
Descriptors: Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement, Educational Opportunities
Kozol, Jonathan – Equity and Choice, 1992
Inner-city schools are currently as separate and unequal as they have ever been. School reform has failed to address the dual system, and it will remain ineffective as long as an unequal and racially divided system operates. Suggestions are given for turning rhetoric to action. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Change Strategies, Class Size

Trent, Stanley C. – Urban Education, 1992
Argues against the Bush administration's school choice proposal from historical and sociocultural perspectives. The Bush approach to education reform espouses educational excellence without addressing needs of children who are at risk of school failure. Equity for minority groups has never occurred as a by-product of a focus on excellence. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Decision Making, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Raywid, Mary Anne – Equity and Choice, 1992
Explores issues faced by designers of school choice systems as numbers and types of choice arrangements proliferate and become more complex. Defines elements of a successful system of choice. The system developed will depend on the intentions, assumptions, and commitments present in the initial design. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Innovation
Glenn, Charles L. – Equity and Choice, 1992
Considers issues of school choice and school autonomy. Parents, society as a whole, and the educator team of each school should have a lead role in answering the basic questions about schooling. Examples from schools in other countries illustrate some new approaches to school autonomy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy

Levine, Daniel U.; Ornstein, Allan C. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1993
Examines efforts to increase school effectiveness. Topics addressed are evaluation of effective schools research, successful school effectiveness projects, exemplary instructional interventions, process of school improvement and reform, cooperation with other institutions, magnet and alternative schools, school choice proposals, year-round…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Choy, Susan P. – Principal, 1998
National data comparing public and private schools show many systematic differences in source of support, degree of parental choice, student populations, teacher qualifications and salaries, school and class size, professional autonomy, instructional practices, and support services. Larger and better financed than most private schools, public…
Descriptors: Class Size, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Decision Making

Chitty, Clyde – Oxford Review of Education, 1997
Discusses the blurring of boundaries between state and private education system that has occurred since 1979 in Britain. Notes that the system has always maintained degrees of support for private and state-supported education. Investigates the social and political influences involved in the implementation of school vouchers and the 1988…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Diversity (Institutional), Educational Administration, Educational Equity (Finance)
Kennedy, Sheila Suess – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
The voucher "air war" is a conflict between two longstanding elements of the American political tradition: a time-honored commitment to maximum personal choice and individual freedom versus an equally compelling belief in need for a common civil infrastructure and communitarian interests. Will embracing vouchers further erode the public…
Descriptors: Accountability, Civil Liberties, Democratic Values, Educational Vouchers