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Maartje De Meulder; Joseph J. Murray – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
The inclusive education debate is often framed as a choice between outmoded special schools and progressive inclusive general education schools. However, the rhetoric of 'choice' hides what is in reality a context of restricted resources, both in general education and in special congregated settings. We interview three deaf-parented families with…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Misconceptions, Special Schools, Progressive Education
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Chase M. Billingham; Shelley M. Kimelberg; Matthew O. Hunt – AERA Open, 2024
We utilize original survey data to examine factors influencing parental assessment of schools. When asked a series of questions about their evaluation of hypothetical schools in a survey experiment, respondents were given the option to select "don't know" and explain in their own words what additional information they would want to know…
Descriptors: School Safety, Parent Attitudes, Institutional Characteristics, Crime
Tiffany Wu; Adriana Villavicencio; Verenisse Ponce Soria – Harvard Educational Review, 2024
In this article Tiffany Wu, Adriana Villavicencio, and Verenisse Ponce Soria investigate how Asian American parents define and understand diversity and explore how racial attitudes influence parents' school choices. Drawing on a broader study of a school choice policy designed to reduce racial segregation in a large, urban school district, the…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Asian Americans, School Choice
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Jane Arnold Lincove; Jon Valant – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Unified enrollment (UE) systems were designed to improve efficiency, equity, and transparency in school choice processes, but research has focused on efficiency gains. This study examines whether moving from decentralized enrollment processes to UE mitigates or exacerbates racial segregation that often occurs in choice systems. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Enrollment, School Demography, Selective Admission, Admission (School)
William Berry; Robin Chait – WestEd, 2024
Education savings accounts (ESAs) are designed to provide families with greater flexibility in designing educational programs that meet the needs of their children outside of the public system. Through ESAs, state education funds that are allocated for a child to attend public school are transferred directly to the child's family to use for the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Money Management, Educational Vouchers, Private Schools
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Yusuf Canbolat – Educational Policy, 2025
Influencing major education policies in the US such as school vouchers and charter schools, market theory assumes that organizational autonomy, parental choice, and competition between schools improve the quality of education. However, whether those policies can influence the instructional core of schools is not well understood. Comparing private…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Charter Schools, Achievement Tests
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Jason E. Saltmarsh – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
District leaders in school choice contexts tend to overlook the many hidden costs of selecting schools in terms of mobility, time, liquidity, and labor. Meanwhile, a body of literature on school choice policies and cultural, social, and political capital shows that middle-class parents use the resources they possess to get the school access they…
Descriptors: School Choice, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Educational Opportunities
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Chew, Adrian W. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
Various abductive research approaches have been foregrounded in the literature in recent years. This paper joins the literature on engaging with abductive research approaches, and proposes the term of 'informed guessing' as a way to think about enacting educational research abductively to allow new concepts, ideas and insights to come into being.…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Research, Logical Thinking, School Choice
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Kotok, Stephen; Sorden, Alexa – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2022
Principals and superintendents operating in high-choice environments are often faced with enrollment challenges as they compete for students. This case study examines the experience of a principal at Crossroads Elementary--a high-performing, culturally responsive, and innovative traditional public school that struggles to retain many of its older…
Descriptors: School Choice, Traditional Schools, Public Schools, High Achievement
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Owusu, Acheampong; Nettey, Joshua Nii Akai – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) advancement has led to the digitization of school selection and placement systems in a developing economy such as Ghana. As a result, the Ghana Education Service (GES) in 2005 introduce the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) to improve selection and placement transparency and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, School Choice, Student Placement, Foreign Countries
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2022
The Education Scholarship Account Act allows parents to use the funds that would have been allocated to their child at their resident school district for an education program of the parents' choosing. The Act identifies student eligibility as well as approved educational expenses. The Act establishes procedures for parents to apply to the ESA…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Finance, School Districts, Educational Policy
Burris, Carol – Network for Public Education, 2022
Demand for charter schools is declining. In sixteen of the forty-one states that have published 2021-2022 enrollment numbers, charter school enrollment has dropped, in some cases, by substantial amounts. In an additional six states, charter enrollment has stalled with increases of fewer than 200 students in charter schools across the state. Using…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Enrollment, School Choice, Admission (School)
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Alejandra Ros Pilarz; Heather Sandstrom; Julia R. Henly – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Childcare instability can negatively affect family well- being. Yet not all childcare changes are bad for families. This qualitative study (N = 85) examines work, family, provider, and subsidy- related factors contributing to childcare changes among families with low incomes. We focus on the desirability--the extent to which parents wanted to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Employed Parents
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Garganourakis, Vasileios; Dimopoulos, Kostas; Koutsampelas, Christos – Journal of School Choice, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to describe the characteristics of school reputation of five lower secondary schools located in the sixth largest city in Greece, as it emerges from the views and experiences of parents, and how it shapes school choice. To this end, 63 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents of children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Secondary Schools
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Bottia, Martha Cecilia; Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin; Stearns, Elizabeth – Science Education, 2023
This article investigates whether attending a sequence of racially diverse schools predicts science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) college outcomes. Such a relationship is important because of the increasingly diverse population of school-aged children who are likely to attend racially segregated K-12 schools and colleges, the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Graduates, Student Diversity, Race
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