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Ringsmose, Charlotte – Childhood Education, 2013
Denmark has had a long history of placing a high priority on education and public schooling. It is a declared goal of the Danish welfare system to provide comprehensive schooling, where children from different socioeconomic backgrounds can go to school together and have the same opportunities through education. It is also a declared goal for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Private Schools
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Cunningham, Matthew P. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2015
This article reviews several recent court cases at the federal and state levels related to school choice initiatives in the United States. Through this review, the article sheds light on the enduring question of whether these programs are unlawful bonds between church and state. The review includes details about choice programs that exist (or have…
Descriptors: School Choice, Catholic Schools, Federal Legislation, State Legislation
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Byun, Soo-Yong; Irvin, Matthew J.; Meece, Judith L. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, this study documented college attendance patterns of rural youth in terms of the selectivity of first postsecondary institution of attendance, the timing of transition to postsecondary education, and the continuity of enrollment. The study also examined how these college attendance…
Descriptors: College Students, Attendance Patterns, Rural Youth, Urban Youth
Ardon, Ken; Candal, Cara Stillings – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2015
For most families, their home address determines the school that their children will attend. While wealthier families can move to the community of their choice or choose a private school, lower-income families have fewer alternatives if they are not satisfied with their local schools. In the past two decades, many states have begun to subsidize…
Descriptors: Urban Education, School Choice, Private Schools, Educational Vouchers
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2015
The performance measures included in the 2014/15-2016/17 Service Plan have been reviewed, resulting in the replacement of some measures and the introduction of new measures to more accurately reflect the Ministry's mandate and strategic directions. These changes are discussed in relation to each relevant performance measure. In keeping with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Individualized Instruction
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Yoon, Ee-Seul; Lubienski, Christopher – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
The normalization of school choice in the education system is purported to provide more schooling options for all families, particularly those who do not have the means to move into affluent areas with "better" schools. Nonetheless, it is still unclear to what extent the policy of school choice has been effective in achieving the goal of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, School Choice, Foreign Countries, Metropolitan Areas
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Anthony-Stevens, Vanessa – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2017
Educational reform policies in the United States promote school choice as a central tool to empower low-income and minoritized families in order to close the achievement gap. However, research on school choice rarely reflects the voice of minoritized families and offers little evidence that choice significantly addresses inequities in educational…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, School Choice, Educational Policy, Minority Groups
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Brewer, T. Jameson; Lubienski, Christopher – National Education Policy Center, 2017
A new report by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), "Differences by Design?," compares differences in approaches and demographics between and among charter school models and local "traditional public schools." Using three national data sets, the report effectively captures the national universe of charter schools. It…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Student Characteristics, Models, School Segregation
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2017
A full year of progress in advancing education reform across America is documented in each of the Foundation for Excellence in Education's Annual Reports. In this report, readers will see the broad range of initiatives that the Foundation for Excellence in Education is working on--policies that personalize the learning experience for students,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Choice, Educational Innovation, Accountability
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Heiman, Daniel; Murakami, Elizabeth – Journal of School Leadership, 2019
This critical ethnographic study investigated how gentrification processes shaped an elementary school's community and two-way bilingual education (TWBE) program in Central Texas. Findings revealed how these gentrification processes impacted the principal and vice principal at the ontological and epistemological levels, as their ways of being and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Social Class
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Gill, Sean; Jochim, Ashley; Lake, Robin – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2019
New legislation in California will allow school districts, such as Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), to consider the "financial and academic impact" when approving or denying applications for new charter schools. OUSD has been in fiscal distress in the past and faces fiscal challenges that continue to play out in classrooms across…
Descriptors: School Districts, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Financial Exigency
DiPerna, Paul; Catt, Andrew D.; Shaw, Michael – EdChoice, 2019
This is the seventh edition of EdChoice's "Schooling in America Survey." Each year, researchers poll the general public on a range of issues in K-12 education. In 2019, the polling results are based on a nationally representative sample of the general public that includes 1,810 online and phone interviews. Over time, EdChoice has…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Busing
Carpenter, Dick M., II; Clayton, Grant – Educational Leadership, 2016
In this article, researchers Dick M. Carpenter II and Grant Clayton explore common enrollment systems (CESs)--how they work and what school leaders can learn from districts that have implemented CESs. Denver, New Orleans, and Newark (New Jersey) have rolled out this centralized enrollment process for all district-run and charter schools in their…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Enrollment, Database Management Systems, Management Information Systems
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McEachin, Andrew J.; Welsh, Richard Osbourne; Brewer, Dominic James – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
A growing number of states experimented with alternative governance structures in response to pressure to raise student achievement. Post-Katrina experimentation in New Orleans was widely regarded as a model example of new governance reforms and provided a unique opportunity to learn about the variation in student achievement and behavior within…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior
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Ladner, Matthew; Smith, Nelson – Education Next, 2016
In this article, "Education Next" talks with Matthew Ladner and Nelson Smith on the topic of Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). ESAs apply the logic of school choice to the ever-expanding realm of education offerings. Rather than simply empowering families to select the school of their choice, ESAs provide families with most or all of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Tuition, Educational Vouchers, School Choice
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