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From:The Cato Journal (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedK-12 education policy has recently received much scrutiny from policyanakers, taxpayers, parents, and students. Reformers have often cited increases in spending with little noticeable gain in test scores, coupled with...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 59, Issue 01)Students e Choose a section e Initial Transfer Destinations of Students Who First Enrolled in College in the Fall of 2006 The transfer destination chosen most frequently by students over all was a two-year...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 61, Issue 35)The way it's discussed in policy circles, choosing a college can sound clinical. Would-be students weigh data points on graduation rates, student-loan debt, and salaries, then base their decisions on such metrics. Or...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNATION AT RISK'S MOST FATAL FLAW WAS ITS faith in the American education system's ability to act on its recommendations. The authors of Risk believed that the system was mainly in need of internal reforms: tougher...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 14, Issue 3)The Republican gains of November have prompted renewed calls for action on school vouchers and choice in education. In the past, supporters fretted that the Bush administration had abandoned school vouchers too readily...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 13, Issue 8)Lowell Weicker et al., Divided We Fail: Coming Together Through Public School Choice, The Century Foundation, September 2002 (tcf.org) A report from a task force assembled by a liberal think tank suggests that...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the past few years, four states have established programs that provide public financial support to students who choose to attend a private school. These programs-a tax-credit-funded scholarship initiative in Florida...
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From:The Cato Journal (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWith each passing year, the number and variety of school choice proposals continue to grow. The purpose of these proposals, whether implicit or explicit, is to reintroduce market forces to the field of elementary and...
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From:College Student Journal (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis study employed a college student sample to retrospectively assess the adequacy of the college-related attribute information they received when deciding to attend college. The assessment separately considered males...
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From:Gifted Child Today (Vol. 34, Issue 1)58% of parents would send their child to the school he or she now attends? Statistics from Bushaw, W. J., & Lopez, S. J. (2010). The 42nd annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll of the public's attitudes toward the public...
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From:Southern Economic Journal (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA model is developed to determine the impact of demographic cycle on earnings and schooling choices. A schooling choice equation, which links schooling levels and wages, allows the prediction of cohort size effects on...
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From:Australian Journal of Education (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract School choice in China is characterized by the payment of substantial amounts of additional ("choice") fees by parents to the preferred school, and by the use of cultural, social and economic capital to...
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From:Canadian Journal of Education (Vol. 29, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFour typical arrangements for relating faith to schooling were developed in Canada during the nineteenth century. All resulted from compromises between the assimilating traditions of Christian Constantinianism and...
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From:Childhood Education (Vol. 71, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe San Juan Supreme Court has declared part of the educational voucher program instituted by Puerto Rico as unconstitutional since it creates an alternative institutional system of private education with public finds...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 59, Issue 31)Byline: Jeffrey Selingo College professors increasingly complain about the consumer mentality of their students: In exchange for shelling out ever greater amounts of tuition dollars, students expect to be treated to...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 3, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHE DEBATE over school choice may be about to take a new turn. For years, reformers of left and right have dueled over whether the best way to shake up poorly performing public schools is to provide parents with the...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 63, Issue 16)Betsy DeVos, Donald J. Trump's pick for education secretary, has well-established views on elementary and secondary education, but virtually no track record on higher education. Her support for school choice may provide...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 63, Issue 29)LAST month, Betsy DeVos said in prepared remarks that historically black colleges were "real pioneers when it comes to school choice" and "living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 21, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedREMEMBER THE RED FOR ED MOVEMENT? Three years ago, teachers in West Virginia massed on the state capital by the thousands, demanding salary increases and seeking to stop legislation that would have brought private-school...
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From:The American (Washington, DC) (Vol. 2, Issue 5)Nearly two decades have passed since the enactment of the landmark Milwaukee Parental Choice Program by the Wisconsin legislature. The program and its many supporters had hoped this experiment in school choice would...