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Green, Beth – Journal of School Choice, 2018
This article argues that contemporary conceptual frameworks for understanding religion may not be adequate for the arena of religion and school choice. Successive published research suggests that people are choosing religious schools for reasons other than religion. But what if the reasons why people might be religious and their motivation for…
Descriptors: School Choice, Religion, Educational Research, Educational Sociology
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Forsberg, Håkan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
Drawing on the case of upper secondary education in Stockholm, this article analyses school-based responses to a superimposed market and how this is related to social stratification. Furthermore, schools' and pupils' encounters with the market are analysed in relation to Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital and strategy. Methodologically, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary Schools, School Choice
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Kelly, Matthew Gardner – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2018
In this article, I use a case study of education in nineteenth-century Oregon to place the twentieth-century phenomenon of 'shopping for schools' within a broader historical context. In doing so, I make three points. First, documenting previously unacknowledged links between the spread of public education and efforts to market land, I suggest that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational History, Public Education, Real Estate
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Yao, Yuan – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2018
This study applies the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and Kruskal-Wallis test to explore the significant differences in international student populations among five American regions from both the synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The study found significant differences in international student populations among the five American regions in 2016.…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Geographic Regions, Student Characteristics, Climate
Groff, Peter – Progressive Policy Institute, 2018
Progressives have long understood that access to a quality education is the one factor that consistently and permanently changes the trajectory of a life. As such, creating a strong public school system has been at the epicenter of our decades-long struggle to promote equal rights and equal opportunity for all. For many of America's families of…
Descriptors: Public Education, Institutional Autonomy, Accountability, School Choice
Trujillo, Gabriel A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Parents of school-aged children currently find themselves with a wide range of school choice to meet their social, philological, and educational needs. The parents that opt to invoke their choice option are willing to pay tuition, travel greater distances and/or relocate their families for better schools or educational opportunities. In many…
Descriptors: School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Open Enrollment, School Districts
DeAngelis, Corey A.; Hoarty, Blake – Cato Institute, 2018
The expansion of private school choice programs has been accompanied by a growing call for regulation of those programs. Individual private schools decide whether to participate in voucher programs based on expected benefits and expected costs. An unintended consequence of attaching heavy government regulation to voucher programs is that it raises…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Private Schools, Participation
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Guterman, Oz; Neuman, Ari – International Review of Education, 2017
Homeschooling is an alternative to conventional education in many countries all over the world, though legal regulations vary. This article examines why parents opt for homeschooling. The large body of research on the topic (especially from the United States) points to a variety of reasons for making the choice to homeschool. The most common…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Parent Student Relationship
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Burke, Lindsey Marie – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This study examines the extent to which there is a difference in satisfaction between parents of children attending private schools that participate in the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) and of children who attend non-LSP private schools, using parents' expressed commentary as proxies for satisfaction. This is the first study to consider…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Satisfaction, Private Schools, School Choice
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Thomas Caira; Jill Surmont; Esli Struys – Language and Education, 2024
Despite its non-elitist goals, there is growing concern over the potentially elitist nature of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) programmes in English. Previous European studies have reported more advantaged pupils' profiles in these programmes compared to regular programmes. It is unclear from the literature however which pupils…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cassidy Syftestad Klutts – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Classical and Christian education has proliferated across education sectors over the last decade. As a result, school leaders must implement these timeless philosophies of education and navigate such high demand. This dissertation seeks to equip relevant parties with research about what drives their skyrocketing enrollment and how to support…
Descriptors: Governance, Christianity, Religious Schools, Educational Philosophy
EdChoice, 2024
This poll was conducted between February 2-5, 2024 among a sample of 2,252 Adults. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of Adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region. Results based on the full survey have a measure of precision of plus or minus 2.41 percentage…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hilary Moss – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
This essay queries how ideas about school choice traversed the Pacific in the late twentieth century. Specifically, it reconstructs and deconstructs the visits of two African American proponents of parental school choice, Annette "Polly" Williams and Howard Fuller, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1990s. Drawing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Parent Role, Parent Participation
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McIntosh, Shona; Hayden, Mary – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
Recently, increases in numbers of international schools have been fuelled by a growth in numbers of aspirational families selecting them. The perception that international education affords children access to social advantages has been established in the school choice literature, but there has yet to be an examination of this trend in relation to…
Descriptors: International Schools, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Advantaged
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Leek, Joanna – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
The goal of this study is to examine the distinctive features of International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes in Poland, and the role of IB programmes in the Polish education system. To address this aim, a review of the relevant legislation has been carried out, accompanied by interviews with teachers and students in 9 IB schools in Poland. Results…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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