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Shapiro, Walter – Time, 1991
To help public schools experience free-market competition, Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander and President Bush propose parental choice among private, parochial, and public schools, supported by public financing for program design and tuition grants. Sidebars highlight church/state separation concerns and school choice experiments in…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Roggeveen, Dirk G. – Momentum, 1993
Argues that school choice should be provided to give low-income parents control of their lives and opportunities for their children's futures through access to superior educational resources. Describes the successes of two small private schools, the Sheenway School in Los Angeles and the Holy Angels School in South Chicago. (MAB)
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
Sandham, Jessica L. – Education Week, 1998
Describes the pros and cons of Alaska's unique Family Partnership Charter School, which oversees distribution of public funding to home-schooling families, offers support to help home-schooling parents meet district standards on their own terms, and monitors required purchase of teacher time and expenditures. A sidebar describes an Alaskan…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Charter Schools, Distance Education, Educational Administration

Dunn, Mary Anna – Educational Leadership, 2000
Established in 1973, a progressive Charlotte, North Carolina, elementary school has been subjected to trends and pressures (particularly the back-to-basics and direct- instruction movements) that threatened its integrity and survival. Irwin Avenue must cover citywide academic objectives, but organizes its curriculum around themes and active,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Back to Basics, Curriculum Design, Diversity (Student)

Herbert, David – School Leadership & Management, 2000
Under British school-choice systems, parental perceptions of school quality motivate considerable pupil migration. Headteachers are cast into managerial roles stressing their ability to retain catchment populations and attract pupils from elsewhere. A South Wales study shows that school location and local environment figure prominently in a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Competition, Educational Environment
Froese-Germain, Bernie – Education Canada, 1998
School choice is a market-driven reform in which schools compete for students. Discusses characteristics of choice and lessons drawn from the international experience: increased segregation, unimproved learning, low participation, parental criteria, inequity, lack of options, administrative emphasis on management, and right-wing support. Describes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Diversity (Institutional), Economic Factors

Kearns, David T.; Harvey, James – Educational Leadership, 2001
Society must reconceptualize the public school as any nonprofit entity willing to be accountable for educating our children. The new system should emphasize common standards and school choice. Charter experiments in Moses Lake, Washington; Milwaukee; and Harlem demonstrate the power of choice and transformational leadership. (Contains 11…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, Charter Schools, Competition
Hardy, Lawrence – American School Board Journal, 2000
This special section outlines recent trends, including U.S. population projections (highlighting growth in aging and minority groups), public opinion about schools and school choice, accountability concerns, achievement scores, technology access, early childhood issues, and state and regional statistics on finance, school characteristics, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance, Educational Trends

Gewirtz, Sharon – Journal of Education Policy, 2001
The British New Labour Party's resocialization project is based on certain desirable middle-class attributes: active consumerism, school monitoring, transmission of cultural capital at home, and possession of social capital. Problems will continue to arise, since only a limited number of schools and jobs are deemed "excellent." (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Alexander, Lamar – Education Next, 2004
In this article, the author discusses the idea of "Pell Grants for Kids," a plan that would provide a $500 scholarship to each middle- and low-income child in America. Children could use these scholarships at any public or private school or for any educational program, such as private tutoring. Homeschooled children would also be…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational Finance, Grants, Competition
Pedroni, Thomas C. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2005
Critical educational researchers in the United States and elsewhere are missing something essential in their inattention to considerable support among Black urban women for market-based educational reforms, including vouchers. While the educational left has engaged in important empirical and theoretical work demonstrating the particularly negative…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, African Americans, Females, Educational Change
Robertson, Donald; Symons, James – Education Economics, 2003
With diminishing returns to the peer group, it is optimal social policy to mix children in schools. We consider what happens when, contrary to the outcome being determined by a social planner, schools and children are free to seek each other out: with some caveats, this leads to perfect segregation by child quality. It is shown that this is the…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Public Schools, Social Planning, Educational Policy
Garnett, Richard W.; Pearsall, Christopher S. – Education and the Law, 2005
In "Zelman v. Simmons-Harris," the Supreme Court of the US made it clear that governments do not unconstitutionally "establish" religion merely by permitting eligible students to use publicly funded scholarships to attend qualifying religious schools, so long as the students' parents are able to make a "true private…
Descriptors: School Choice, Constitutional Law, Educational Vouchers, State Church Separation
Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2007
We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in England. Although--as widely recognised--attainment in dense urban places is low on average, this is not because urban environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most disadvantaged pupils with low average attainments attend…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Choice, Academic Achievement, Urban Areas
Sutton, Lenford – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2006
State exit exams, also known as graduation tests, are tests that student must pass to graduate from high school. These tests are more influential than ever. Accordingly, in 2004, 20 states required students to pass an exit exam to graduate from high school, and six additional states will implement an exit exam by 2009. This affects more than half…
Descriptors: High Schools, Public Schools, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate