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Conceptions of Choice, Equity, & Rurality in Educational Research

open access: yesThe Rural Educator, 2021
Although school choice advocates often promote a vision of additional schooling options for all students, the predominant target of school choice researchers has been densely populated, urban cores in the United States. However, this belies the fact that
James Bridgeforth   +3 more
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Using self-generated identification codes to match anonymous longitudinal data in a sexual health study of secondary school students: a cohort study

open access: yesBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Objective This study aimed to (i) describe the procedures for generating self-generated identification codes (SGICs) in a prospective longitudinal evaluation of a sexual health program for secondary school students in Hong Kong; (ii) outline the matching
Edmond Pui Hang Choi   +8 more
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Juxtaposing some contradictory findings from research on school choice (Yuxtaponiendo algunos hallazgos contradictorios de investigaciones acerca de la elección escolar) ( Juxtaposant quelques trouvailles contradictoires de recherches autour du choix scolaire) (Justapondo alguns descobrimentos contraditórios de pesquisas feitas sobre a escolha escolar) [PDF]

open access: yesMagis: Revista Internacional de Investigación en Educación, 2009
Research over the last twenty years on school choice and local markets in education has been contradictory or inconclusive: some supports the movement to give parents more freedom in choosing schools; other findings support the view that greater choice ...
Anthony Kelly
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School Vouchers and Student Neighborhoods: Evidence from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
In this paper we explore the relationship between students’ residential location and participation in Milwaukee’s large, widely available private school voucher program. We are interested in one overarching question: do voucher schools disproportionately
Deven E. Carlson, Joshua M. Cowen
doaj   +1 more source

Tensiones público-privado y el diseño de los sistemas educativos: ¿Qué nos dice PISA? Public-private tensions and educational systems design: what does PISA tell us?

open access: yesPro-Posições, 2012
Los diversos sistemas educativos en el mundo persiguen objetivos tanto públicos como privados. Específicamente, deben intentar conciliar el permitir mayor libertad para que las escuelas puedan responder a los objetivos privados de las familias con ...
Gregory Elacqua   +3 more
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Speaking cooperation, acting competition: Supply-side subsidies and private schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts in Buenos Aires

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
Few studies have explored how schools respond to competition in socially embedded education quasi-markets. This study focuses on how state-subsidized privately-run low-fee schools (S-LFPSs) compete with free public schools in some of the poorest ...
Mauro C. Moschetti, Carolina Snaider
doaj   +1 more source

Children's daily travel to school in Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa: geography and school choice in the Birth to Twenty cohort study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper has two aims: to explore approaches to the measurement of children’s daily travel to school in a context of limited geospatial data availability, and to provide data regarding school choice and distance travelled to school in Soweto ...
Julia de Kadt   +10 more
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School choice and local embeddedness in Brussels: the neighbourhood effect assessed through administrative files

open access: yesBelgeo, 2016
This paper investigates the links between the existence of a neighbourhood effect and school choice. The case study is Brussels. It offers the opportunity to analyse a segregated urban context with a school system organized as a quasi-market based on the
Julien Danhier, Perrine Devleeshouwer
doaj   +1 more source

The Short-Term Impact of Crime on School Enrollment and School Choice: Evidence from El Salvador

open access: yesEconomía, 2020
This paper employs variations in crime rates, attributed to an unprecedented countrywide truce between gangs in El Salvador in 2012, to evaluate the short-term impact of homicides and extortions on the education choices of Salvadoran households. Results
Juan Nelson Martínez Dahbura
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Factors Influencing School Choice in a School District in Delaware

open access: yes, 2012
The purpose of this descriptive study is to examine the factors that influenced parents in a school district in Delaware when they selected a high school for their child.
Kennedy, John Joseph.
core   +1 more source

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