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Maria Menegaki – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This paper addresses aspects of alternative proposals taking place in the public education system, based on an anthropological, ethnographic, comparative study of alternative schools and educational projects in Catalonia. More specifically, it first explores educational change in Catalonia through time and on the present, with a special focus on…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Change, Cultural Differences, School Choice
EdChoice, 2023
Researchers from across the country have published at least 187 empirical studies on the effectiveness of private school choice programs. The "EdChoice Study Guide" is an annually updated guide to the available research on private school choice programs in America. In this guide, one can learn what the body of rigorous research says…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Tests, Scores
Curry, Katherine A. – Voices of Reform, 2018
A vast amount of research addressing school choice seeks to understand how and why parents/families choose schools. However, little is understood concerning the influence of choice on family beliefs and behavior. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand family perspectives, through the lens of Choice Theory (Glasser, 1998), of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Family Involvement, Family Attitudes, Outcomes of Education
Shuls, James V. – Journal of School Choice, 2018
Enrollment in school choice programs is growing, so is overall support for school choice. Many have analyzed what demographic characteristics impact attitudes towards school choice. This article adds to the literature by exploring the interaction between personal decisions regarding school choice and broader support for school choice programs.…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Charter Schools, Educational Policy
Watson, Angela R. – Journal of School Choice, 2018
Homeschooling in America enjoyed significant and dependable growth for decades. However, federal estimates of homeschool participation failed to show statistically significant growth for the first time in 2012. Many dismissed this as measurement error and awaited the next round of federal estimates. In the fall of 2017 those estimates were…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, School Choice, State Departments of Education, Documentation
Harris, Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Against a background of failure on the part of the focus of this case study to adhere to its founding charter in terms of enrollment, the purpose of this study was to explore how and why rural parents choose charter schools over traditional public schools. Using data collected through individual and focus group interviews, field observations, and…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Preferences, Rural Schools, Charter Schools
Hannon, Shawn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine whether factors of social comparison theory influence public school choice in Indiana. There were two arms in the study. One arm used three district-level variables (parent education level, socioeconomic status, and homogeneity of race) associated with social comparison theory (SCT) and five…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Social Theories, Educational Quality
Caesar, Lisette – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative research was to describe, analyze, and interpret the perceptions of 16 New York City elementary school principals on the use of social media to recruit prospective families. Today, New York City school leaders are faced with being a promoter for their schools do the expansion of the charter school movement and the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Principals, Elementary Schools, Administrator Attitudes
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2018
Charter schools are tuition-free public schools open to all students and held to state academic and financial standards. However, unlike traditional public schools, charter schools are run independently of school districts and operate under a performance contract with an authorizer (a district, the state or another approved government or nonprofit…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Low Income Students
Holmes Erickson, Heidi – Journal of School Choice, 2017
I review the literature on how parents select schools when participating in private choice programs in the United States. I address two sub-questions. First, do parents have the incentives and motivation needed to participate in a schooling market? Second, when selecting a school, what school characteristics do parents consider? I find three…
Descriptors: Parents, School Choice, Private Schools, Educational Vouchers
Danielsen, Bartley R.; Harrison, David M.; Zhao, Jing – EdChoice, 2017
Urban economic development resources are often focused on bringing jobs and affordable housing to downtown areas. In contrast, there has been very little consideration given to how public charter schools and other school choice programs might act as economic development catalysts. This study examines relocation decisions made by families whose…
Descriptors: School Choice, Urban Renewal, Urban Schools, Case Studies
Gleasure, Seán G. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2020
This research sought to investigate the experiences of students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds who chose to attend socioeconomically integrated secondary schools in Ireland. Socioeconomic integration is the practice whereby students from varying socioeconomic backgrounds are integrated into heterogeneous school settings in order…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Socioeconomic Status, Social Integration, Foreign Countries
Breidenstein, Georg; Krüger, Jens Oliver; Roch, Anna – Comparative Education, 2020
The global establishing of school choice has often and convincingly been criticised in terms of social inequality because parents have very different access to resources to enforce their expectations and demands as 'costumers'. What is less discussed in the literature is the perspective of the 'providers': Do schools have to give up their position…
Descriptors: School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Social Differences, Commercialization
Dvorák, Dominik; Meyer, Petr; Kucerová, Silvie R.; Vyhnálek, Jan; Šmíd, Ondrej – Journal of Pedagogy, 2020
Most of the literature on student between-track mobility or school choice examines decision making in comprehensive systems or in tracked general education schools. In this article we present data on inter-school mobility (transfers) of upper secondary students in a differentiated educational system with academic, professional and vocational tiers…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Student Mobility, Databases
Wodon, Quentin – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2020
This paper is the second in a set of two on the extent to which Catholic and other faith-based schools are serving the poor well. Catholic and other faith-based schools reach millions of children who live in poverty, yet this does not necessarily mean that they are serving these children well enough. The paper considers two separate issues. First,…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Poverty, Religious Education, Values Education