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Clerge, Orly – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Drawing from an ethnography, this paper evaluates the motivations of Black American and Black immigrant parents when selecting high schools for their millennial teenage children in a segregated city and suburbs of New York. Black middle class parents encounter racial exclusion in the areas of work and residence. However, more research is needed to…
Descriptors: African Americans, Middle Class, Racial Segregation, Urban Schools
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Amatullah, Shaima; Dixit, Shalini – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
So far research on school choice sets (decision about choosing a school from an available set of schools) has primarily regarded parents as key actors. Moving beyond, this article emphasises that children are important actors as they inform parental decisions to co-produce certain choice sets. This article foregrounds how school-going Muslim…
Descriptors: Muslims, School Choice, Public Schools, Private Schools
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Richard, Meagan Sharissa; Salisbury, Jason; Cosner, Shelby – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
This research examines social justice leaders' community activism in response to three local and national political contexts. Grounded in literature that advances ecological models of school leadership, we analyzed how seven urban school leaders conceptualized community activism as linked to school outcomes, and how leaders conducted activism…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Activism, School Community Relationship, Equal Education
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Quintero-Fragozo, Camilo; Cortés, Yasna; Sarrias, Mauricio – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
This study analyzes the effect of spatial competition on public schools' efficiency in Chile, an extreme case of market-oriented reforms in the educational sector. To address this issue, we use a measure of competition that captures three major characteristics of market competition in a spatial context: the number of competitors, based on distance…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Efficiency
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Jamie M. Carroll; Douglas N. Harris; Anjana Nair; Emilia Nordgren – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
The National Longitudinal School Database (NLSD) comprises three files, making up a near-census of all schools and districts in the United States from school years 1990-91 to 2019-20. The three files are the Public School File, Private School File, and District File. As evident by the titles, the first two files report data at the school-level for…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Databases, School Statistics, Census Figures
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DeAngelis, Corey A.; Burke, Lindsey M. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2020
This article uses a survey experiment to examine the effects of public school deregulations on public school leaders' support for a hypothetical private school voucher program in California. There is no evidence to suggest that public school deregulations affect public school leaders' support for private school vouchers overall. However,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Administrator Attitudes, School Choice, Educational Vouchers
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Leist, Sebastian A.; Perry, Laura B. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
Increased social and academic segregation are known side effects of school choice policies in market-driven environments that facilitate competition amongst schools. Aiming at complementing foundational knowledge in quantifying segregation, this study first defines school markets (i.e., geographical context) based on student transitions from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Outcomes of Education, School Location
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Paul-Binyamin, Ilana; Potchter, Oded – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
The current study examined the case of religious students who opted to study in a secular teacher-training college despite the fact that there are religious colleges that would have suited their needs. This phenomenon is unusual because the education system in Israel is segregated and each educational sector has its own teacher-training colleges.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Minority Group Students, Religious Factors
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Faw, Leah; Jabbar, Huriya – Urban Education, 2020
In recent years, districts have paid special attention to the common practice of "district hopping," families bending geographic school assignment rules by sending a child to a school in a district where the child does not formally reside-usually to a district that is more desirable because of higher performing schools or greater…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Antisocial Behavior, Crime, School Districts
McShane, Michael Q.; Shaw, Michael – EdChoice, 2020
Transportation, or the lack thereof, can be a huge barrier to families exercising choice. Simply because a state authorizes the creation of charter schools or grants vouchers to families looking to send their children to private schools doesn't mean that those children will actually be able to attend those schools. They have to be able to get…
Descriptors: School Choice, Bus Transportation, Student Transportation, Charter Schools
Rhine, Russell – Cato Institute, 2020
In 2016, Maryland adopted the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today (BOOST) voucher program that helps pay K-12 private school expenses for low-income households. BOOST vouchers target low-income families. Funds are available to public school students as well as children in private schools and homeschools who qualify for free or…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Low Income Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Pilate, Thresia E. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study applied quantitative research methods by employing a descriptive research design to collect data from Members of the House of the 111th Tennessee General Assembly regarding their use and perceived importance of information sources to detect the existence of potential controversy or areas of disagreement within the member's environment…
Descriptors: Legislators, Decision Making, School Choice, Information Sources
Baumgartner, Erin; Thrash, Courtney – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
Distance and program characteristics drive parental pre-kindergarten (pre-k) choice. This study reflects the third in a series of briefs examining pre-k enrollment and access for students in the Houston Independent School District (HISD). The aims of this study are to identify characteristics that drive enrollment, understand where parents receive…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, School Choice, Parent Attitudes, School Location
Bulkley, Katrina E.; Marsh, Julie A.; Strunk, Katharine O.; Harris, Douglas N.; Hashim, Ayesha K. – Harvard Education Press, 2020
In "Challenging the One Best System," a team of leading education scholars offers a rich comparative analysis of the set of urban education governance reforms collectively known as the "portfolio management model." They investigate the degree to which this model--a system of schools operating under different types of governance…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Urban Schools, Governance, Educational Change
Heather Boyle – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This article presents the findings of a quantitative study examining Lexile scores, and English and Math Milestone scores of students who participated in school choice at a southeastern high school as compared to students at the same high school who continuously followed the feeder pattern. The purpose of this study was to determine if the…
Descriptors: School Choice, High School Students, Intervention, Tests
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