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Thurston, Paul; Salmon, Jessica – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2022
Independent school leaders are continually faced with the challenges of declining enrollment and expanding public options and currently lack a mechanism to understand what influences parents' reenrollment choices. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a theoretical framework for reenrollment decisions in secular and Catholic…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Enrollment, Parent Attitudes, School Choice
Hurie, Andrew H.; Palmer, Deborah K. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
Extant research has emphasized the importance of information to help families of English learner-identified children to navigate school choice structures, and raised critical questions about the information that is made available through school marketing. At a time of increasing tension around school choice and the rapid expansion of certain forms…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Resistance to Change, School Choice, Marketing
Dutta, Kathleen; Ohlssen, Megan; Stelitano, Laura; Ekin, Sumeyra – Center for Learner Equity, 2022
Examining the experiences of families of students with disabilities seeking to exercise school choice is crucial to informing cogent policies and practices that will ensure equitable access. This report explores the perceptions and experiences of families of students with disabilities enrolled in charter and traditional district schools in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, School Choice, Equal Education, Family Attitudes
Henrekson, Ebba; Andersson, Fredrik O. – EdChoice, 2022
This report seeks to explore some of the reasons Sweden developed an independent school sector dominated by for-profit schools by drawing on prior scholarship and reports as well interview material from Swedish school entrepreneurs, researchers, and prior public representatives that helped create and implement the Swedish voucher program. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Proprietary Schools
Ready, Douglas D.; Reid, Jeanne L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
New York City's Pre-K for All (PKA) is the nation's largest universal early childhood initiative, serving over 64,000 four-year-olds annually. Stemming from the program's choice architecture as well as the city's stark residential segregation, PKA programs are extremely segregated by child race/ethnicity. Our current study explores the complex…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Racial Segregation, Ethnicity
Region 14 Comprehensive Center, 2023
Region 14 Comprehensive Center and the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) are collaboratively implementing projects to address high leverage problems such as student access to effective educators, supporting schools serving specific student populations, and building school district capacity to design school models aligned to parent choice.…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Academic Achievement, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Choy, Sarojni; Dymock, Darryl; Hai Le, Anh; Billett, Stephen – International Journal of Training Research, 2020
Although vocational education and training (VET) can lead to lucrative and fulfilling careers and plays a vital role in skilling workers for contemporary workplaces, it continues to have a low status in schools, among parents and in the wider community. Many countries are now seeking to enhance the status of VET to increase its uptake by…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Vocational Education, Career Pathways, Foreign Countries
Kosunen, Sonja; Bernelius, Venla; Seppänen, Piia; Porkka, Miina – Urban Education, 2020
We explore the interconnections of pupil admission and school choice with the socioeconomic composition of schools in the city of Espoo, Finland. We analyze pupil enrollment from residential areas, and compare the schools' expected and actual socioeconomic profiles using GIS software (MapInfo). Social-diversification mechanisms within urban…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Secondary Schools, Enrollment Trends
Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca; Shapiro, Anna; Staszak, Sara; Rochester, Shana; Martin, Eleanor – Child Development, 2020
This study leverages naturally occurring lotteries for oversubscribed Boston Public Schools prekindergarten program sites between 2007 and 2011, for 3,182 children (M = 4.5 years old) to estimate the impacts of winning a first choice lottery and enrolling in Boston prekindergarten versus losing a first choice lottery and not enrolling on…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Preschool Children
Adrião, Theresa; Silva, Rui da – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
This paper focused on public funding to private providers of compulsory education in the context of globalisations. It analyses the differences and the common points between Brazil and Portugal (from 2014 to 2017) regarding the type of private providers in education, the mechanics and the reasons linked to the public funding to compulsory…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Private Schools, Compulsory Education, Comparative Education
Ruiz Alvarado, Adriana; Stewart-Ambo, Theresa; Hurtado, Sylvia – Education Sciences, 2020
Gaps in college degree completion between low-, middle-, and high-income college students are typically attributed to differences in academic preparation and ability. However, high-achieving, low-income students are still less likely to graduate from college than their high-achieving, high-income counterparts. This study explores completion rates…
Descriptors: School Choice, Career Choice, High Achievement, Low Income Students
Moyano Dávila, Camila; Joiko, Sara; Oyarzún, Juan de Dios – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2020
Latin families moving to a different Latin American country are placed in a dominated position by what is called 'coloniality'. In this sense, we argue that the processes of classification (in terms of social class), racialisation and genderisation that migrant Latin families experience when choosing schools for their children in the Chilean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Social Class, Classification
Louzano, Paula; Simielli, Lara – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
This article analyzes the case of school choice in the United States and its implications for the Brazilian context. This discussion is important to Brazil, given the fact that key actors are starting to advocate in favor of introducing charter schools and vouchers in the country. Evidence from countries that introduced this model can help shed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Charter Schools, School Choice
Jolly, Jennifer L.; Matthews, Michael S. – Educational Review, 2020
In 1988, Van Galen proposed two distinct categories to describe homeschooling parents -- ideologues and pedagogues. Her model has been widely cited in the homeschooling literature. In the 30 years since the introduction of these identifiers, homeschooling in the United States has experienced tremendous growth due to a number of intersecting…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Informal Education, Academically Gifted, Educational Change
Lueken, Martin F. – EdChoice, 2020
This paper discusses the potential fiscal effects of education savings accounts for K-12 in New Jersey on the state and local taxpayers. Education savings accounts are a way to expand educational opportunity for all families, particularly those in need. For parents who voluntarily elect to customize their child's education, a specified amount is…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Money Management, Costs