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Schwartz, Wendy – 1995
Most large schools have many types of programs serving many types of students, but smaller schools, serving fewer students, may be able to have a more defined "personality," or focus. Focus schools are becoming more popular because their students tend to be high achievers and because many districts are allowing families to choose the schools they…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Critical Thinking, Curriculum
Finn, Chester E., Jr. – 1996
Most of the industrialized world retains an obsolete, tracked, multitiered public education system that prepares some children for university and others for blue-collar jobs. This educational design neglects changes in technology, family structure, and community life, and its bureaucratized management values uniformity and process over initiative…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Vanourek, Gregg; And Others – 1997
Although charter schools have provoked much interest, there has not been a systematic nationwide effort to ask the clients and teachers of charter schools what they think about them. During the 1996-97 school year, Hudson Institute's Charter Schools in Action Project gathered quantitative data that describe 50 charter schools enrolling…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Yu, Corrine M., Ed.; Taylor, William L., Ed. – 1997
Magnet schools are public schools that offer specialized subject themes or educational methodologies as a way of achieving desegregated student bodies. This document reports on a study of school districts in three communities--St. Louis (Missouri), Cincinnati (Ohio), and Nashville (Tennessee)--that have made wide use of magnets in meeting their…
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 1994
Initial studies of school choice in Massachusetts have concentrated on the mechanics of the program, but this report examines why parents choose school choice. A survey of Massachusetts families participating in school choice was completed by 826 families (return rate of 41.8%), representing 987 choice students, or about 23.5% of the estimated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs
Greene, Jay P.; Peterson, Paul E. – 1996
In August 1996 Jay P. Greene, Paul E. Peterson, and Jiangtao Du, with Leesa Boeger and Curtis L. Frazier, issued a report called "The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee." The report, referred to as GPDBF, presented data that indicated that low-income minority students in their third and fourth years of participation in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Participant Characteristics
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Convey, John J. – 1992
This overview examines the major research studies on Catholic schools published between 1965 and 1991 along with a synthesis of the research regarding the demography, outcomes, and environment of Catholic schools, and of the teachers, parents, and students associated with Catholic schools. The research showed that student from Catholic schools…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Demography
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1994
Measures to improve parent and student choice of school have recently become an important issue for educational reform in a number of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. This book summarizes the school-choice experiences of selected OECD countries. The data, collected by the OECD/Centre for Educational Research…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Diversity (Institutional), Educational Demand
Muskingum Area Technical Coll., Zanesville, OH. – 1994
This survey investigated the immediate after-high school plans of high school juniors, with a special emphasis on post-secondary education intentions. The survey included the responses of 1,064 students from 12 high schools. Forty-nine percent of the respondents indicated that they planned to attend a four-year college or university, 18 percent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Career Choice, Career Planning
Fossey, Richard – 1992
State legislatures have become increasingly willing to experiment with school choice. Since 1985, more than half the states have passed school choice laws. This article reports on a survey conducted in the summer of 1991 and updated in the fall of that year that focuses on state choice statutes. Six categories of school choice laws are discussed:…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Fiscal Capacity
Hellerman, Susan B., Ed. – Imagine...Opportunities and Resources for Academically Talented Youth, 1994
This theme issue of a newsletter for academically talented youth focuses on getting the best precollege education. It encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning by becoming aware of all the options their school offers; making use of them; supplementing and enriching the basic school curriculum; and participating in…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academically Gifted, Achievement Need, Advanced Placement Programs
Hood, John – 1991
This essay offers an analysis and critique of business involvement in public elementary and secondary education. An opening section suggests that of the initiatives launched in the past, many have been only cosmetic and based more on slogans and fads than on meaningful reform proposals. The essay goes on to suggest a more thorough identification…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Economic Impact
Doyle, Denis P. – 1983
The quality of elementary and secondary education was the most important issue for the American public in the 1980s. The nation's economic health, social well-being, political viability, and international standing depend to a great degree on the success of our education system. As well as ensuring equal opportunity for all Americans, schools help…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Principles, Educational Theories
Banks, Ellen C. – 1993
In multilingual nations, young children learn early about the social and educational importance that adults attribute to different languages. In Malaysia, parents express their values about languages by choosing specific kindergartens. Preschools' language values are reflected in the amount of time devoted and the seriousness of approach to each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Shokraii, Nina H.; Olson, Christine L.; Youssef, Sarah – 1997
Two separate systems of education exist in the District of Columbia. In the private school system, students from all races and socioeconomic backgrounds are learning the basic skills and more, and are going on to college at high rates. In the public school system, the majority of students are consigned to deteriorating and dangerous schools in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
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