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Valentine, Daria N. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative study explored how parents make school-choice decisions. I conducted a basic interpretive qualitative study to collect and analyze data. I used criterion purposeful sampling to determine participants who met the criteria for this study: (a) parents who currently had students at schools of choice, and (b) parents who were entering…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Participation, School Choice, Decision Making
Creed, Benjamin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Using the three paper format, this dissertation contributes to the literature evaluating school choice and school competition. This study highlights important gaps in our collective understanding of the impact of school choice policy. This dissertation contributes in multiple ways to the closing of important gaps related to the effect of school…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy
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Torres, Leonor L.; Palhares, José A.; Afonso, Almerindo J. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2019
The mechanisms of academic distinction of the best students, such as the Honours Boards of Excellence and Value, emerge in Portuguese state schools as important institutional management strategies for promoting the school image and attracting the best students. This is what the authors propose to discuss, and that they identify as being a new form…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Foreign Countries, State Schools, Marketing
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Magness, Phillip; Surprenant, Chris W. – Journal of School Choice, 2019
While the primary focus of ethical discussions involving school voucher programs has been on the relationship--and possible disconnect--between educational outcomes and profit motivations, recently this focus has shifted to the relationship between consumer sovereignty and racial segregation. A growing critique of private voucher and charter…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, School Choice, School Segregation, Racial Segregation
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Clayton, Grant; Clayton, Christina; Carpenter, Dick M., III; Ecks, Gregory B. – Journal of School Choice, 2019
This study uses administrative data to measure the effect of attending a charter school in Denver, Colorado on the achievement of reclassified English as New Language (ENL) students during their monitor period in the mainstream classroom environment. We utilize school choice data from Denver's Common Enrollment System (CES) to control for each…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, English Language Learners, School Choice, Grade 6
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Mann, Bryan A.; Kotok, Stephen – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background/Context: A primary argument that supports charter school policy assumes students favor schools with high academic performance ratings, leading to systemic school improvement. Previous research challenges this assumption but has limited generalizability because geographic and enrollment constraints limit student choice sets.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Enrollment Trends, Educational Improvement, Student Characteristics
Lueken, Martin F. – EdChoice, 2019
Critics of private school choice programs argue that they drain resources from public schools and increase taxpayer costs. Supporters of these programs, on the other hand, argue that these programs save taxpayers money because the average amount of scholarships is less than per pupil spending in public schools. Given these fiscal concerns, when…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Private Schools, Tax Credits
EdChoice, 2019
This annual publication of "The ABCs of School Choice" is a comprehensive, data-rich guide to every private school choice program in America. This publication outlines how each program works, whom it serves, and offers feedback on how it could be changed to help even more families in a particular state. Programs are grouped…
Descriptors: School Choice, Private Schools, Geographic Location, Tax Credits
Ben-Porath, Sigal R.; Johanek, Michael C. – University of Chicago Press, 2019
If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the United States finally make a dramatic break with its past and expand parental choice? Those are not…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Education, Magnet Schools, Charter Schools
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Manjuma Akhtar Mousumi; Tatsuya Kusakabe – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
The growing number of private schools in India, especially those accepting children from underprivileged households, has been considered demand driven. In contrast to this understanding, this paper argues that low-income parents in Okhla and Badarpur in Delhi, India, are compelled to send their children to private unaided recognised and…
Descriptors: School Choice, Private Schools, Costs, Foreign Countries
McShane, Michael – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2021
Microschools, small schools that educate five to 15 students, have been among the most interesting recent developments in the K-12 reform world. Neither homeschooling nor traditional schooling, they exist in a hard-to-classify space between formal and informal learning environments. One of the most prominent microschooling networks, Prenda, was…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Bedrick, Jason – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
The "Wall Street Journal" declared 2011 the "year of school choice" after 13 states enacted new choice policies or expanded existing ones. This brief discusses coalitions as the secret ingredient of the choice movement's success and shares lessons learned from the most effective coalitions. Key points include: (1) parental…
Descriptors: School Choice, State Policy, Parent Attitudes, Advocacy
EdChoice, 2021
This poll was conducted between October 11-October 21, 2021 among a sample of 444 Black school parents. The interviews were conducted online. Results based on the Black school parents sample have a measure of precision of plus or minus 5.3 percentage points. Among the key findings are: (1) Black parents' comfort with their child returning to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Parents, Blacks, African Americans
EdChoice, 2021
Unless otherwise noted, data and charts are based on surveys conducted between July 14 and October 16, 2021 among a sample of 1,007 special education parents and 3,648 non-special needs parents. The interviews were administered online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of parents based on gender, educational attainment, age,…
Descriptors: Parents, Special Education, Control Groups, Opinions
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Barry, Margot; Egan, Arlene – International Review of Education, 2018
Adult learners are attracted to learning opportunities (e.g. course offers) which seem promising in terms of allowing them to match their choices to their own perceived predispositions. To find out more about their personal learning style, some adult learners may fill in a questionnaire designed by researchers who aim (and claim) to enable both…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, Adult Education, Interest Research
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