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Norquist, John O. – Momentum, 1996
Discusses a recent Wisconsin "school choice" initiative, under which parents may choose public, private, nonsectarian, or religious schools for their children and have state funding directed to the appropriate institutions. Argues that school choice programs empower parents to provide the best education available to their children. (MAB)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Decision Making, Educational Strategies, Educational Vouchers

Viteritti, Joseph P. – Brookings Review, 1996
Examines the controversy surrounding school choice policymaking and discusses emerging means-based proposals designed to give low-income children a chance to attend high-quality private or parochial schools. Legal issues regarding the full choice movement in education are addressed as well as the political forces arrayed against it. (GR)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education

Lindjord, Denise – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 2001
Examines issues concerning school vouchers as a way to improve the nation's public schools. Focuses on: (1) inequality in teaching and schooling; (2) public education and social mobility; (3) the Cleveland, Ohio school voucher program; (4) how school vouchers undermine public schools; and (5) the political debate. Asserts that voucher programs are…
Descriptors: Debate, Disadvantaged, Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment

Hill, Paul T. – Education Next, 2001
Discusses trend of "takeovers" of low-performing big-city school districts by skilled outsiders and argues that success depends on how schools are overseen rather than who oversees them. Describes optimum district environment for success and argues structure and accountability ultimately more important than person in charge. (KSB)
Descriptors: Accountability, City Government, City Officials, Educational Change
Hill, Paul T. – Journal of Education, 2005
New school creation is key to success of choice. For the last two decades, the struggle over school choice has focused on freeing up parents to choose. It continues to this day, with growing success in the forms of public and private voucher programs, charter school laws in 40 states and the District of Columbia, and state and federal laws that…
Descriptors: School Choice, Supply and Demand, Educational Demand, Public Schools
Urrieta, Luis, Jr. – Educational Foundations, 2005
In this article, the author attempts to enter the charter school dialogue by looking at the new charter school movement through an anti-essentialist social movement and new social movement lens. In the anti-Western new social movement conception there are no set patterns to how movements manifest themselves, or how they were intended to manifest…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Grant, Carl A. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2004
Recently, reflections on the progress since the 1954 decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" and the challenges confronting those who believed in "Brown" occupy much of the author's daily thinking. Many of the current and recent past education problems and issues are connected generally and specifically to issues of school desegregation: (1)…
Descriptors: Race, Teacher Effectiveness, Multicultural Education, School Desegregation
Terzian, Sevan G.; Boyd, Donald C. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2004
After four years of failed attempts, lawmakers in the State of Florida sanctioned charter schools in 1996. This paper traces the political origins of the charter school movement in Florida and the USA as a whole. Examining legislation and reforms at the federal level, as well as state legislative proceedings, this paper identifies key political…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Stullich, Stephanie; Eisner, Elizabeth; McCrary, Joseph; Roney, Collette – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2006
The Title I program, created in 1965, is the largest federal program supporting elementary and secondary education and is intended to help ensure that all children have the opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach proficiency on challenging state standards and assessments. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) expanded the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, State Standards, Elementary Secondary Education
Parsons, Carl; Welsh, Paul J. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2006
This paper details the impact of New Labour's neo-liberal social and educational policies on disadvantaged groups in the district of Thanet. It notes that the post-welfare policy responses to social and educational problems reinforce both the disadvantages of deprived groups and the gradient of popularity among secondary schools within the…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Public Policy, Case Studies, Academic Freedom
Finn, Jane; Caldwell, Katherine; Raub, Tara – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2006
This study used an open-ended structured interview to investigate seven parents' of students with disabilities perceptions of charter schools and why they chose this type of school to educate their child. Findings showed a general theme of parents believing that the traditional area public school did not meet their child's needs in terms of size,…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Charter Schools, School Activities, School Size
Lieberman, Myron – 1993
This book argues that public education no longer fosters in students basic skills, scientific and cultural literacy, civic virtues, and desirable habits/attitudes toward society and its institutions. The book asserts that government provision of goods and services is usually less effective and efficient than provision through a market system. It…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Capitalism, Competition, Educational Change
Finn, Chester E., Jr. – 1992
This document contains two essays--the first on public education, and the second on private education. The first essay, entitled, "Our Schools and Our Future," points out a paradox--public-opinion polls show widespread public receptivity to fundamental changes in the education system; however, this attitude is accompanied by widespread complacency…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Innovation
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1996
Controversy abounds in states and communities across the United States about how best to manage the nation's schools. Much of the current debate over school reform can be reduced to a single question: Who should decide? This report discusses some of the ways in which policymakers have attempted to give schools greater flexibility from rules and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Improvement

SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1993
The two issues of the journal SKOLE for 1993 contain original articles and reprints about small alternative schools, home schooling, school as community and community as school, racial and class inequalities in public schooling, and various educational philosophies and innovations. Major articles include: (1) "School As Community:…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy