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Amanda Schmidt – Blueprint Labs, 2024
In urban areas like New York City, school choice systems intend to break the connection between residential segregation and schooling by allowing students to attend schools outside their neighborhoods. If successful, school choice could benefit historically underserved students. However, recent research suggests that achievement gaps and…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, School Choice, Preferences, Student Diversity
Kristen D. Foster – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study sought to explore the lived experience of parents concerning school voucher programs and determine whether parental knowledge of funding discrepancies between income-eligible voucher programs and traditional public schools drives parents' advocacy for vouchers. This research is rooted in the interest convergence theory to explore and…
Descriptors: School Choice, Family Income, Educational Vouchers, Parent Attitudes
US House of Representatives, 2024
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, Secondary Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce that was held to examine school choice. Opening statements were provided by: (1) Honorable Aaron Bean, Chairman, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Opportunities, Hearings, Academic Freedom
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Joshua Cowen; Ryan D. Nowak – National Education Policy Center, 2024
As publicly funded private school tuition systems have expanded, independent research has documented their negative outcomes. However, the prevalence of the programs continues to grow. This brief summarizes the research evidence about vouchers and identifies three areas of policy design that are especially important for student success and a…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Educational Finance, Private School Aid, School Choice
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Luis A. Huerta; Trevor Baisden – National Education Policy Center, 2024
The school-choice landscape in the United States is undergoing a rapid transformation, as states increasingly enact a new form of vouchers called Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). Unlike earlier voucher programs, which generally allowed subsidies only for private school tuition, ESAs represent a radically expansive--and potentially very…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Money Management, Private Schools, Home Schooling
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Felipe Barrera-Osorio; Andrew Dustan; Luis Carlos Carvajal-Osorio – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Over the past five decades, policymakers have introduced Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programs in education as a reform in the presence of "government failure," aiming to increase the freedom of school choice, educational productive efficiency, and social equity. While the evidence regarding charters in US is…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Administration, Influences
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Marsh, Julie A.; Allbright, Taylor N.; Bulkley, Katrina E.; Kennedy, Kate E.; Dhaliwal, Tasminda K. – American Journal of Education, 2020
The structure of US public education is changing. Rather than exclusive district management of schools with standardized programs, new types of systems have emerged. In the case of "portfolio" systems, advocates argue that choice, performance-based accountability, and autonomy challenge traditional schooling and foster a diversity of…
Descriptors: Models, School Organization, Educational Change, School Choice
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Pantea, Maria-Carmen – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Vocational education and training (VET) is linked to many social and economic goals. Yet despite the high policy ambitions, it often remains a sector with a low(er) social standing. This paper is based on empirical data collected through interviews and focus groups with over 250 young women and men aged 16-18 in 34 VET schools in Romania. It aims…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Student Attitudes, Student Interests
Sallie Mae Bank, 2023
For 16 years, Sallie Mae has surveyed college students and parents of undergraduate students about their attitudes toward higher education and how they're paying for it. This year's report explores education funding sources--from family income and savings to scholarships, grants, and borrowed funds--and evaluates trends in payment strategies over…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Parents, Undergraduate Students, Student Financial Aid
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Saltmarsh, Jason E. – Education and Urban Society, 2023
Parental access to useful information about schools continues to be a structural barrier that limits the equity potential of school choice programs. While "information interventions" or simplified and readable knowledge resources show promise for counteracting information disparities between families, this line of research has provided…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Partnerships in Education, School Choice, Parent Participation
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Gottlieb, Esther E.; Ben-Asher, Smadar; Alsraiha, Kassim – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2023
We test Foster's enduring assertion that "the best vocational education is an academic degree" by examining a case study of Israeli Bedouin women and men, young professionals who shared with us their personal stories of their parents taking them out of their local separate but equal schools and moving them to the majority schooling…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups
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Ridgway, Rosie – Cogent Education, 2023
Education policy in recent years has dramatically repositioned the role and status of teachers, trainee teachers and teacher education in the UK and beyond. This paper focuses specifically on education policy in England; however, it has broader significance for those interested in education and teacher education in international policy contexts.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy, Computational Linguistics, Educational Change
Garnett, Nicole Stelle – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
In order to realize all the benefits of parental-choice programs, advocates, policymakers, and participating schools have to pay more attention to implementation challenges, both when designing parental-choice policies and after new programs are enacted. This report discusses both categories of implementation challenges. The first…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Barriers, Parent Attitudes
Jennifer L. McCarthy Foubert – Harvard Educational Review, 2023
In this article, Jennifer L. McCarthy Foubert draws attention to Black parents' collective school engagement. Applying critical race theory's critique of liberalism as a theoretical frame, she argues that Black parents who participated in her qualitative multicase study resisted white supremacy as they engaged for the collective in everyday school…
Descriptors: African Americans, Parents, Resistance (Psychology), Racism
Yusuf Canbolat – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School choice has influenced several educational reforms in the US and across the world in the last decades. These reforms have often promoted school autonomy, parental choice, and competition between schools to improve quality and equity. Whether those reforms work in practice is well examined, but the roles of policy design such as the extent to…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, School Choice, Educational Change, Policy Formation
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