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Ullah, Shafqat; Hussain, Iffat Ara – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2020
The study focused on evaluating preference of parents sending their children to public or private schools in District Karak. Objective of the study was to find out parental preference for the areas of academic standard, quality of staff, physical facilities, curriculum, cost-effectiveness, and quality of output. All the parents whose children were…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Preferences, Private Schools, Public Schools
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Gulosino, Charisse; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Peabody Journal of Education, 2020
In this article, we introduce a special collection of research articles that consider the processes and consequences of school choice across different social and spatial contexts in order to better understand the relationship between school choice and stratification in educational opportunity. This special issue presents a wide range of studies…
Descriptors: School Choice, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Neighborhoods
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Babington, Michael; Welsch, David M. – Journal of Education Finance, 2017
Many papers have now examined the competitive effects of charter and voucher programs; relatively less attention has been paid to the potential competitive effects of other school choice programs. Our paper attempts to continue to fill this void, by examining the potential competitive effects of transfers within a statewide open enrollment program…
Descriptors: School Choice, Open Enrollment, Competition, Transfer Students
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DeAngelis, Corey A.; Burke, Lindsey – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
We examine whether voucher programme regulation reduces private school specialisation in the US. We employ school-and-year fixed-effects regression and examine individual private schools in Washington, DC, Indiana, and Louisiana as they transition into voucher programme environments. We leverage the Private School Universe Survey to observe how…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Private Schools, Specialization, Institutional Characteristics
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Mizrav, Etai – Educational Policy, 2023
Decades after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling banned mandatory race-based separation of students to different schools, school segregation, and inequality in the United States are rapidly increasing. In this research synthesis, I propose a model for explaining how segregation and inequality are formed in urban and suburban school systems and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Policy, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation
Cunningham, Maurice T. – Network for Public Education, 2023
They show up shouting at school board meetings with endless complaints. The press interviews them as though they are "regular moms" looking out for their children, but they are not. They are a well-funded façade for the Koch, Walton, and DeVos families to disrupt and destroy public education. In our new report, author and academician…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Public Education, Deception, Financial Support
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DeAngelis, Corey A. – Educational Review, 2021
Students' abilities are multidimensional; teachers and schools shape students' cognitive skills, most often captured by test scores, but they also shape students' non-cognitive skills such as character, tolerance, effort, and conscientiousness. This study reviews the evidence indicating disconnects between test scores and non-cognitive skills from…
Descriptors: Scores, Standardized Tests, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Rudge, Lucila – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
The New Zealand schooling system is well-known for its progressive and innovative approach to education (Couch, 2012; Mutch, 2013; Wells, 2016). Their national curriculum is inclusive and flexible, allowing schools and teachers to select the content they deem necessary to meet the competencies in the designated learning areas (Ministry of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Progressive Education, Private Schools, Holistic Approach
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Hamlin, Daniel – Urban Education, 2021
Spurring parental involvement has been a core objective of charter school reform. This study compares for-profit-managed and nonprofit-managed charter schools and their public school peers in Detroit on two indicators of parental involvement. Nonprofit-managed charter schools generated higher rates of general parental involvement, net of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Nonprofit Organizations
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Ogawa, Miku – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2021
This study aims to understand the role of private secondary schools in rural Kenya under the Free Secondary Education Policy. Data were collected from four private schools over two months in 2018 and 2019. All the schools had experienced instability due to low enrolment, particularly after the policy was implemented in 2018. The decline in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Secondary Schools, School Role
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Cheng, Albert; Peterson, Paul E. – Education Next, 2021
This study looks at the impact of using a voucher on college enrollments and on degree attainment. The data covers a span of 21 years, which allows the ability to record college enrollment and attainment up to seven years after a student's anticipated date of high-school graduation and observe students' college-going behavior even if their…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Vouchers, College Attendance, Academic Degrees
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Leath, Seanna; Ball, Paris; Seward, Miray D.; Billingsley, Janelle; Pfister, Theresa – High School Journal, 2021
It is important to consider the cultural and community assets that influence Black girls' intentions to pursue higher education, such as parental messages on degree attainment and college success. The present qualitative study explored how high-achieving Black women perceived and internalized the college preparation socialization they received…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Readiness, Females, High Achievement
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Haderlein, Shira; Marsh, Julie; Tong, Tong; Bulkley, Katrina; Jabbar, Huriya; Germain, Emily; Quinn, David; Bradley, Dwuana; Alonso, Jacob; Mulfinger, Laura – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2021
The public education landscape has changed dramatically since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities and school systems throughout the country have faced unimaginable consequences from this public health crisis and the disruption to K-12 public schools. The pandemic's disproportionate impact on low-income communities of color, along with…
Descriptors: School Choice, COVID-19, Pandemics, Parent Attitudes
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Austin, Megan J.; Pardo, Max – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
Indiana has a robust portfolio of high school options, including traditional public schools, charter schools, and private schools that accept Indiana Choice Scholarships (private voucher schools). This study identified the type of high school enrollment (type of high school and voucher status) among the student populations of four cohorts (who…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Achievement, High School Graduates
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Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
Indiana has a robust portfolio of high school options, including traditional public schools, charter schools, and private schools that accept Indiana Choice Scholarships (private voucher schools). But little research is available on the characteristics of students who attend different types of high schools or how their college and career readiness…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Achievement, High School Graduates
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