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Morris, Rebecca; Perry, Thomas – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
This study examines parental choice preferences following the introduction of the Free Schools policy in England. It reports on two phases of data collection: first, the analysis of factors that Free School and non-Free School parents reported as important in informing their choices; and, second, findings from semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Free Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries
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Agbaria, Ayman K. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This essay discusses the role of religion as a central facet when researching the emerging social group -- the global middle class (GMC). It is argued here that religion is a particularly relevant feature for the constitution of this social group because of the GMC's transnational and cosmopolitan character. In this essay, I will draw on several…
Descriptors: Religion, Middle Class, Religious Factors, Islamic Culture
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Rohde, Luis Augusto; Campani, Fausto; Oliveira, José Renato Gonçalves; Rohde, Catarina W.; Rocha, Thiago; Ramal, Andrea – Journal of School Choice, 2019
The quantitative literature on parental reasons of school choice for their elementary school children was systematically reviewed using all major databases. The quality of the studies was assessed through a modified version of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale. Among 3982 references reviewed, 26 studies were included from 14 countries. Although large…
Descriptors: School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students
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Gross, Bethany – Education Next, 2019
In 2017, Matthew Chingos and Kristin Blagg of the Urban Institute convened a group of researchers to analyze students' school choices and travel to school in five cities-- Denver, Detroit, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, D.C.--where families are able to select from among many charter and district schools. The team found that a large number…
Descriptors: School Choice, Student Transportation, Urban Schools, Equal Education
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Butler-Barnes, Sheretta T.; Lea, Charles H.; Leath, Seanna; Colin, Rosa – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2019
A plethora of research on voluntary school choice programs and the impact on student's outcomes have been documented. However, lacking are the experiences of students of color attending predominately White schools that are part of these voluntary school choice programs. Using the integrative model for the developmental competencies of minority…
Descriptors: School Choice, African American Students, Racial Composition, Whites
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Jochim, Ashley; Heyward, Georgia; Gross, Betheny – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2019
Since 2011 DC School Reform Now (DCSRN) has worked to help families in the city's most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods find success with school choice and enroll in high-quality schools. DCSRN's parent advocates focus on understanding the families they serve and the barriers they must overcome--an approach that requires flexible,…
Descriptors: School Choice, Family Programs, Educational Change, Family School Relationship
Chingos, Matthew M.; Kuehn, Daniel; Monarrez, Tomas; Wolf, Patrick J.; Witte, John F.; Kisida, Brian – Urban Institute, 2019
Private school choice programs are rapidly gaining traction, with nearly 450,000 student participants in 2019--an increase of 300,000 students in just 15 years. This report evaluates how well some of these programs prepare students for college by examining college enrollment and completion data from the Florida Tax Credit scholarship program, the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Enrollment, College Preparation
Hoxby, Caroline M., Ed.; Stange, Kevin, Ed. – University of Chicago Press, 2019
How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in "Productivity in Higher Education" use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric…
Descriptors: Productivity, Higher Education, Educational Benefits, Outcomes of Education
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Ferry, Magnus; Lund, Stefan – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
In the fields of both education and sport, the possession of capital and habitus influences an individual's lifestyles and choices, which in turn affects the social selection within these fields. In this article, we will study the Swedish system of school sports as an overlap between the fields of education and sport, and thus viewed as a double…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Athletics, Team Sports
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Makris, Molly Vollman – Peabody Journal of Education, 2018
This study investigates school choice in a gentrified urban context and examines the ways in which school choice as rhetoric creates false perceptions, how school-choice policies can betray the very principle they espouse, and how choice (while sought after by many) can undermine community. As school choice continues to expand and gain traction…
Descriptors: School Choice, Community Change, Urban Schools, Parent Attitudes
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2018
Tax credit scholarship (TCS) programs offer state tax credits to individuals or businesses that donate to scholarship funds for students to attend private elementary and secondary schools. Through these credits, donors may reduce the amount they owe in state taxes by the full or a partial amount of their donation, depending on each program's…
Descriptors: School Choice, Tax Credits, Scholarships, Donors
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McCormack, Orla; O'Flaherty, Joanne; Liddy, Mags – Irish Educational Studies, 2020
Education and training board (ETB) schools, previously called Vocational schools, were established in the Republic of Ireland in 1930. At the time of their genesis, these schools were initially prevented from offering students a pathway to upper secondary/university, leading to them being viewed as 'second-rate'. Drawing on interviews with school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Inclusion, Vocational Education
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Shannon-Baker, Peggy; Porfilio, Brad J.; Plough, Bobbie – Educational Foundations, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the school selection process of parents whose children attended an urban school district in Northern California. Like numerous urban school districts across the United States, the district highlighted in this study also encountered students exiting its schools for the past decade. The findings shared in this…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Declining Enrollment, Urban Schools, School Districts
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Paleeri, Sankaranarayanan – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2020
Schooling of the children with Non-Verbal Learning Disorders, particularly of those with Cerebral Palsy (CP), is a Catch-22 situation to parents and teachers. The phrase Catch 22 reflects the dilemma faced by the parents while choosing education for their children with CP. The CP children with normal intelligence are precisely able to have normal…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Parent Attitudes
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Edmonds, Matthew C. – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
In 1969, four years after passage of the Voting Rights Act, African Americans in Greene County, Alabama, reclaimed control of local government, becoming the first community in the South to do so since Reconstruction. A half century later, however, Greene County remains an impoverished and largely segregated area with poor educational outcomes,…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Counties, School Segregation, School Choice
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